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• Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

  Jean Anouilh

  Inheritance, Fabulous, Murder

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Waiting, Bothered

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

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• Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

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  Paris, Dinner, Way

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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

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  Beauty, Real, If There Is A God

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

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• Nothing is irreparable in politics.

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  Politics, Politician, Irreparable

  Jean Anouilh (1955). “The Lark”

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• Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.

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  Unsaid

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• Saintliness is also a temptation.

  Jean Anouilh

  Temptation, Saint

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• Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

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  Tragedy, Flawless, Clean

  'Antigone' (1944)

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• Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.

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  Dog, Auras, Lost

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• In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

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  Money, Matter, Enough

  Jean Anouilh (1967). “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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• Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

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  Love, Real, Enemy

  Jean Anouilh (1978). “Plays: Restless heart. Time remembered. Ardèle. Mademoiselle Colombe. The lark”

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• A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

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  Genius, Obvious, Understood

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• Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

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  Art, Nice, Giving

  'La Rèpètition' (The Rehearsal, 1950) act 2

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• God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

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  Fear, Men, Frightened

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

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• We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

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  House, Poison, Ships

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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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  Magic, Mind, Genius

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• It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.

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  Courage, Greatness, Certain

  "Ardèle: a play in three acts".

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• Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

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  Inspiration, Self, Hoaxes

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• Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

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  Greatest Love, Ruins, Plus

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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.

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  Being Human, Accepting, Plus

  1944 Antigone.

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• One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

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  Wife, Patriot, Knows

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

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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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  Worry, Inheritance, Earth

  Jean Anouilh (1991). “The rehearsal or Love punished”, Methuen

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Mistake, Believe

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

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