Jean Anouilh
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
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It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
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These go to eleven.
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To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
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Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Let thy words be few.
Kind words conquer.
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Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
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Always do the right thing.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
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That'll do, pig. That'll do.
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
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We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
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Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
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To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
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A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Go ahead, make my day.
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You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Honor the ocean of love.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
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Success is the child of audacity.
You betcha !
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
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Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
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The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
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Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
If I know what love is, it is because of you.