“I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.”
Source: The Lark
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Famous Jean Anouilh Quotes
“The object of art is to give life shape.”
Source: The rehearsal: a play in three acts
“Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.”
“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
Source: Jean Anouilh ... plays
“Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.”
Source: Plays: Restless heart. Time remembered. Ardèle. Mademoiselle Colombe. The lark
“Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.”
Source: ... Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette
“What you get free costs too much.”
Source: The Lark
Source: Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette
“Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”
Source: Becket or the Honor of God
Source: The Lark
“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”
“A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.”
“It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.”
“Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.”
“Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.”
“One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.”
Source: Jean Anouilh
Source: Jean Anouilh ... plays
“With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.”
“Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.”
Source: ... Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette
Source: The Lark
“God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!”
Source: The play as theater
Source: Jean Anouilh