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I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.


Jean Shinoda Bolen

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JEAN COCTEAU The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries hav...
JEAN DUBUFFET Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAU If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomf...
JEAN COCTEAU The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent repro...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so...
JEAN GENET Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, an...
JEAN ANOUILH There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former...
JEAN GENET At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager face...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Nothing is irreparable in politics.
JEAN ANOUILH