Dazzle Quote by Jean Anouilh

“In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”

Jean Anouilh

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“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it…

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It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had…

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Saintliness is also a temptation.

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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…

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

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I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

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Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that…

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Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

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Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

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We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

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One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

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All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are…

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May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great…

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I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something…

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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters…

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Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would…

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There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

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The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my…

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You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in…

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“Everyone has one or two secrets they never want to reveal to others. But they also want at least one person to accept everything…

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“Be the man who has the spirit of a ruthless tiger, ravaging every dusty corner of my soul. Be the man for whom I will tame myself voluntarily.. Be the man who can make me forget my birth date in moments of utter dellusion. Be the man whose arms are my harbor, whose lips are my shore, and whose name…

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