Jean AnouilhThinkers

40 (age) is an age at which half of you belongs to the past.

The Actor is good who can never be in love with anyone but himself.

Art's object is to give life shape.

A Bachelor is one who lives like a king and dies like a dog, while a married man lives like a dog and dies like a king.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Domestic violence is always wrong — you should never beat a woman, not even with a flower.

Empathy is severely limited — One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

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

Inspiration is a trick that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Life 1s 2onest to goodness expression (with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances) happens almost exclusively in the newspapers.

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.

Love is the gift of oneself.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.