If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.
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JEAN PAUL The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have t... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he inve... JEAN ARP In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need schola... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Saintliness is also a temptation. JEAN ANOUILH Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines ... JEAN GENET Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. JEAN COCTEAU What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the art... 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 If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they... JEAN BAUDRILLARD One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while... JEAN BAUDRILLARD The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corn... JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're cau... JEAN ANOUILH Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny t... JEAN BAUDRILLARD We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters ... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o... JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a ... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by p... JEAN ANOUILH Tact is knowing how far to go too far. 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