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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 ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of af...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
JEAN ANOUILH
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasu...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER
Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflagg...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be co...
JEAN ANOUILH
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
JEAN COCTEAU
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of ex...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinar...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD