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JEAN PAUL
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra...
JEAN GENET
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
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