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Jean Anouilh Quotes

French - Playwright June 23, 1910 - October 3, 1987


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


Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh


Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Jean Anouilh


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.

Jean Anouilh


Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Jean Anouilh


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


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.

Jean Anouilh


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

Jean Anouilh


Things are beautiful if you love them.

Jean Anouilh


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

Jean Anouilh

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