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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.


Jean Genet

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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