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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  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.

  Jean Anouilh

  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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• Nada es irreparable en política.

  Jean Anouilh

  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.

  Jean Anouilh

  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.

  Jean Anouilh

  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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Dog, Auras, Lost

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• Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, Real, Enemy

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

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

  Jean Anouilh

  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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• 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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Nice, Giving

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

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  House, Poison, Ships

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Inspiration, Self, Hoaxes

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• ¡Dios! ¿Hay algo más feo que un hombre asustado?

  Jean Anouilh

  Fear, Men, Frightened

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

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Courage, Greatness, Certain

  "Ardèle: a play in three acts".

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• ¿Va en serio? Aprovecha este momento. La audacia tiene genio, poder y magia. Sólo comprométete, y entonces la mente se calienta. Comienza, y entonces el trabajo se completará.

  Jean Anouilh

  Magic, Mind, Genius

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Genius, Obvious, Understood

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Wife, Patriot, Knows

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

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Being Human, Accepting, Plus

  1944 Antigone.

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Greatest Love, Ruins, Plus

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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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Worry, Inheritance, Earth

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

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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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• 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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