Jean Anouilh Quotes

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• Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, Relationship, Giving

  ArdŠle(1949) p. 79

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• Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Being Yourself, Acceptance

  "Plays: Thieves' carnival. Medea. Cécile, or The school for fathers. Traveler without luggage. The orchestra. Episode in the life of an author. Catch as catch can".

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• God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

  Jean Anouilh

  Peace, Army, Analysis

  L'Alouette (The Lark, 1953) p. 120

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Simple, Thinking

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• The object of art is to give life shape.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Giving, Shapes

  Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Fighting, Men, Order

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• When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

  Jean Anouilh

  Past, Age, Half

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh ... plays”

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• I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, People, Want

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.52, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

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  Morality, Immorality

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• What you get free costs too much.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Success, Cost

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life

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• Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Garden, Littles

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, Enemy, Courses

  ArdŠle(1949) p. 8

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Carpe Diem, Law, Political

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Names, Ideas, Innocence

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Book, Reality, Historical

  Jean Anouilh (1956). “Time Remembered: A Romantic Comedy”

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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

  Life, Children, Garden

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

  Jean Anouilh

  Strength, Sympathy, Grief

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

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  Order, Leaving, Way

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• With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

  Jean Anouilh

  God, Devil, Tricks

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• Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

  Jean Anouilh

  Atheist, Powerful, Men

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.30, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

  Jean Anouilh

  Dog, Eye, World

  Jean Anouilh (1966). “The Collected Plays [Jean Anouilh]”, London : Methuen, 1966- .

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Hype, Tragedy, Deceit

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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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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  Voice, Tragedy, Complaining

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• Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.

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  Death, Heart, Waiting

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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