Jean Anouilh Quotes about Giving

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Love, Relationship, Giving

ArdŠle(1949) p. 79

The object of art is to give life shape.

Art, Giving, Shapes

Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”

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

Fake People, Inspiration, Giving

Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

Beautiful, Death, Giving

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

Art, Nice, Giving

'La Rèpètition' (The Rehearsal, 1950) act 2