Antoine Vitez Biography
Antoine Vitez (December 20, 1930–April 30, 1990) was a French actor, director, and poet. He was born in Paris, France and became an actor at the age of 19. He was director of the Théâtre national de Chaillot for seven years before being named to head the Comedie Francaise, a French theater company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Antoine Vitez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Antoine Vitez Quotes
Conflicting Beliefs and Personal Pursuits
Jean-Louis:
My Christianity and my affairs are different, conflicting matters.
Vidal:
Yet they co-exist in you.
Jean-Louis:
In a warlike fashion. Now I may shock you once again but pursuing girls does not estrange one from God any more than pursing mathematics, for example.
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Perspectives on Brief Romantic Encounters
Jean-Louis:
I shock you, I know. I've had affairs with girls I loved and thought of marrying. But I've never just slept with a girl; that simply doesn't appeal to me.
Vidal:
Yes, but let's suppose you met a lovely girl you knew you'd never see again. There are circumstances in which it's difficult to resist.
Jean-Louis:
Fate, I won't say God, has kept me from such circumstances. I was never lucky with brief encounters. Remarkably unlucky.
Vidal:
Just in that respect I have been lucky. Once in Italy with a Swedish girl. In Poland with an English girl. Those two nights are perhaps the happiest of my life. I'm all for affairs on journeys or at conferences. At least they avoid the clinging, bourgeois element.
Jean-Louis:
In principle, I'm against. But since such a thing never happened to me...
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