Jean Anouilh Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”
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“Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.”
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“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path”
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“Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”
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“With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.”
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“Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.”
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“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”
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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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“A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.”
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“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”
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“Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.”
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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. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.”
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“Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.”
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“Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.”
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“Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.”
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“All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.”
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“God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!”
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“Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.”
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“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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“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 whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.”
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“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.”
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“There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.”
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“In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.”
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“Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.”
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“Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.”
-- Jean Anouilh
