Jean Anouilh - Antigone (1946)

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It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Jean Anouilh

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout – not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice.

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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

The spring is wound up tight. It will uncoil of itself. That is what is so convenient in tragedy. The least little turn of the wrist will do the job. Anything will set it going.

Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

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