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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

Propaganda

Will

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

Jean Anouilh

God

Devil

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

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

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

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

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.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Jean Anouilh

Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

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

Jean Anouilh

Talent

Open

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

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

Jean Anouilh

Past

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

Jean Anouilh

Courage

Greatness

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Jean Anouilh

Love

Actor

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