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Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.


Jean Sasson

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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