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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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• 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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• 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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  Book, Reality, Historical

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

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Writing, Talent

  Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”

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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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• The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

  Jean Anouilh

  Gratitude, Art, Masters

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

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  Fake People, Inspiration, Giving

  Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Voice, Tragedy, Complaining

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• Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

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  Acceptance, Men, Facts

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• Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

  Jean Anouilh

  Courage, Men, Funeral

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• A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love Is, Happy Love, Quarrels

  Jean Anouilh “Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Art, Nice

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “... Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”

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• Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

  Jean Anouilh

  Beautiful, Death, Giving

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• Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes

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  Lying, Hero, Race

  Jean Anouilh (1951). “Legend of lovers”

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• A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

  Jean Anouilh

  Actors, Good Actors

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• I like reality. It tastes like bread.

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  Reality, Taste, Bread

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• All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

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  Sweet, Children, Silly

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Moving, Hands, Snakes

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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

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  Dog, Lost, Lost Dog

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• An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

  Jean Anouilh

  Fear, Men, Sight

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• Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

  Jean Anouilh

  Memories, Past, Hatred

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• We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

  Jean Anouilh

  Found, Term, Complaints

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “The waltz of the toreadors: a play in three acts. Translated by Lucienne Hill”

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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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  Fun, Long, Would Be

  Jean Anouilh (1952). “Ring Round the Moon”, p.40, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

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  Love Is, Effort, Gone

  Jean Anouilh (1959). “Ardèle: and Colombe : two plays”

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• My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.

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  Giving Up, Years, Wife

  Jean Anouilh “The Waltz of the Toreadors”

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