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JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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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.
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JEAN ROSTAND Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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JEAN PAUL No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD Saintliness is also a temptation.
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JEAN GENET Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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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