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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.


Jean Rostand

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JEAN ROSTAND We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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JEAN ROSTAND Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
JEAN ROSTAND Theories pass. The frog remains.
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JEAN RACINE Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc...
JEAN HOUSTON Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAU Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light...
JEAN COCTEAU Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Despair is the only genuine atheism.
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