How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.


Jean Sasson

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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
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
JEAN ANOUILH
A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit th...
JEAN LUSH
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one stri...
JEAN RHYS
Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
JEAN PAUL
What you get free costs too much.
JEAN ANOUILH
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the c...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of af...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
JEAN ANOUILH
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasu...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD