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One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.


Jean Genet

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so I can read the Koran
read the signs in the street
know the numbe...
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BART TUCKER Residents who have lived on this street -- about 1.5 miles in the area -- have all died.
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ANDERSON COOPER Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
RAM DASS Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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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 Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just para...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
JEAN ROSTAND Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth an...
JEAN COCTEAU The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD