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Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.


Jean Rostand

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JEAN PAUL I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL