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Jean Anouilh

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


— Jean Anouilh


#cannot #choose #entire #entire world #human

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


— Jean Anouilh


#down #garden #life #like #little

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


— Jean Anouilh


#like #must #open #talent #while

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


— Jean Anouilh


#only

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


— Jean Anouilh


#foul #hope #part #reason #restful

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


— Jean Anouilh


#day #death #his #man #sure

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


— Jean Anouilh


#ask #down #fear #goes #house

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.


— Jean Anouilh


#excess #excessively #exhilarating #fun #long

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


— Jean Anouilh


#forty #half #nearly #past #seventy

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


— Jean Anouilh


#god #just #knows #never #terrible






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L'Hurluburlu Paris Comédie des Champs-Elysées 5 February 1959. La Vicomtesse d'Eristal n'a pas reçu son balai mécanique: Souvenirs d'un jeune homme (Paris: La Table Ronde 1987). Plays volume 1 (New York: Hill & Wang 1958); La Sauvage translated by Hill as Restless Heart (London: Methuen 1957); Eurydice translated by Kitty Black as Point of Departure (London: S.

Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (French: [anuj]; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. 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.

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