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... but the thing about hearts, I've come to discover, is that, just like ankles and noses, they heal, even if you don't want them to or think they never will, they do. And someday you wake up and the pain is gone.


Jean Grainger

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JEAN COCTEAU Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
JEAN COCTEAU One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
JEAN ANOUILH If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characteriz...
JEAN PIAGET The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
JEAN COCTEAU Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just para...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
JEAN ROSTAND Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth an...
JEAN COCTEAU The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
JEAN ANOUILH A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit th...
JEAN LUSH I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one stri...
JEAN RHYS Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
JEAN PAUL What you get free costs too much.
JEAN ANOUILH Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the c...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning ...
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