What you get free costs too much.

—Jean Anouilh

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About Jean Anouilh

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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (; French: [ʒɑ̃ anuj]; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles's Antigone, which, though...

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

—Jean Anouilh

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

—Jean Anouilh

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

—Jean Anouilh

Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

—Jean Anouilh

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There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and I am much of the opinion that… the most instructive consideration for us is the cost of doing nothing.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

—Norman Mailer

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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character… would you slow down? Or speed up?

—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters

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