Jean Anouilh Quotes

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This horror and all these useless gestures, this grotesque adventure is ours. We must live it. Death is absurd also.

Jean Anouilh

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy—and that is life.

Jean Anouilh

Orpheus—they've gone on now, the good as well as the bad.... They've done their little song and dance in your life.... They are that way in you now, forever.

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Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

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Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

Jean Anouilh

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, one must write.

Jean Anouilh

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.

Jean Anouilh

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

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When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.

Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh

Born: June 23, 1910

Died: October 3, 1987 (aged 77)

Bio: Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades.

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