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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
— Jean Anouilh
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Jean Anouilh
playwright, screenwriter, writer, director
1910 – 1987
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles' Antigone, which, though performed without objection by censors, was nevertheless seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
All Quotes by Jean Anouilh
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Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.
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Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”
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What you get free costs too much.
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
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What you get free costs too much.
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
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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.
— Jean Anouilh