A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET 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 Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENET The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...
JEAN GENET When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra...
JEAN GENET Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines ...
JEAN GENET What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so...
JEAN GENET There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former...
JEAN GENET We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be ...
JEAN GENET The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but...
JEAN GENET Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in ...
JEAN GENET A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliat...
JEAN GENET Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENET What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENET The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application o...
JEAN GENET To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
JEAN GENET I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a s...
JEAN GENET Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a...
JEAN GENET It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the caus...
JEAN GENET Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
JEAN GENET Betrayal is beautiful.
JEAN GENET Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at a...
JEAN GENET I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
JEAN GENET I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sun...
JEAN GENET Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
JEAN GENET I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are...
JEAN GENET I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it woul...
JEAN GENET One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's...
JEAN GENET There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree...
JEAN COCTEAU If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you have...
JEAN KERR If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasp...
JEAN KERR Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE 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 What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAU Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for w...
JEAN ROSTAND Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes...
JEAN PAUL No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
JEAN PAUL To hate fatigues.
JEAN ROSTAND There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat,...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
JEAN ROSTAND We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
JEAN ROSTAND My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
JEAN KERR Without money honor is merely a disease.
JEAN RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN RACINE Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
JEAN BRYANT Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han...
JEAN COCTEAU There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL 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 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 Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, an...
JEAN ANOUILH 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 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