Maxioms by Jean Anouilh
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible read more
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
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, read more
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
