Jean Anouilh - Life Quotes

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

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

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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

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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.

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The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.

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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

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One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.

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