There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Jean Anouilh
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
JEAN ANOUILH The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a...
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NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy.
AARON KATZ Love is the root of all happiness and all sorrow and theres not much in between.
CHASE KITCHENS If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
HENRI NOUWEN I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
BARRY SHEENE On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there...
HENRY DRUMMOND There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
EURIPIDES The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.
MARK LAWRENCE Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
ORSON WELLES And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak...
LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER [T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympath...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I d...
CASSANDRA CLARE Absence is the enemy of love
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STEWART STAFFORD Envy is like a two-headed serpent: it kills the enemy of its master, and its master.
JOHN B. BEJO The course of true love never remains the same according to its syllabus.
VIKRANT PARSAI Of course there is LOVE! No HATE at all. Only a REVENGE!!!
EPHDAN You check out the cover, you check out the backward, you check out the author, you check out the tit...
DEYTH BANGER A weapon is an enemy even to its owner
TURKISH PROVERB Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
CHARLES DICKENS There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first flutter...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy...
OTTO WEININGER The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its cou...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
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OSCAR WILDE When you are not happy in your life, love or job then when NOW is the time to change your course in ...
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, whe...
ARSENE WENGER Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH Saintliness is also a temptation.
JEAN ANOUILH Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, an...
JEAN ANOUILH Nothing is irreparable in politics.
JEAN ANOUILH It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're cau...
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JEAN ANOUILH One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
JEAN ANOUILH Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
JEAN ANOUILH What you get free costs too much.
JEAN ANOUILH Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be co...
JEAN ANOUILH The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
JEAN ANOUILH With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
JEAN ANOUILH Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you...
JEAN ANOUILH It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
JEAN ANOUILH Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
JEAN ANOUILH Things are beautiful if you love them.
JEAN ANOUILH To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elb...
JEAN ANOUILH What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ex...
JEAN ANOUILH A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
JEAN ANOUILH Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
JEAN ANOUILH Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
JEAN ANOUILH An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
JEAN ANOUILH Love is, above all, the gift of oneself
JEAN ANOUILH Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous...
JEAN ANOUILH Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
JEAN ANOUILH Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you ...
JEAN ANOUILH Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage...
JEAN ANOUILH Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
JEAN ANOUILH Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when...
JEAN ANOUILH Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
JEAN ANOUILH Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if y...
JEAN ANOUILH Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
JEAN ANOUILH Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by po...
JEAN ANOUILH Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
JEAN ANOUILH Saintliness is also a temptation
JEAN ANOUILH Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when...
JEAN ANOUILH To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elb...
JEAN ANOUILH I like reality. It tastes like bread.
JEAN ANOUILH Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
JEAN ANOUILH Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
JEAN ANOUILH Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
JEAN ANOUILH We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled...
JEAN ANOUILH The object of art is to give life a shape
JEAN ANOUILH Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are
JEAN ANOUILH Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence
JEAN ANOUILH Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God
JEAN ANOUILH I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You...
JEAN ANOUILH Comprendre... Vous n'avez que ce mot-là à la bouche, tous, depuis que je suis toute petite. Il fal...
JEAN ANOUILH Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
JEAN ANOUILH We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled...
JEAN ANOUILH Hysterics are the hallmark of the production of genius. Insults are its common currency.
JEAN ANOUILH All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
JEAN ANOUILH Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
JEAN ANOUILH God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money an...
JEAN ANOUILH A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
JEAN ANOUILH When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
JEAN ANOUILH Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
JEAN ANOUILH Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
JEAN ANOUILH Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
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JEAN ANOUILH Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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JEAN ANOUILH Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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JEAN ANOUILH I like reality. It tastes like bread.
JEAN ANOUILH Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
JEAN ANOUILH Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
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JEAN ANOUILH We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled...
JEAN ANOUILH The object of art is to give life a shape
JEAN ANOUILH Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are
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JEAN ANOUILH A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
JEAN ANOUILH When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
JEAN ANOUILH Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
JEAN ANOUILH Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
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rich person who is unhappy because the p...
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WYCLEF JEAN Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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WYCLEF JEAN The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
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