I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.


Jean Rostand

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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
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
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
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 greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE
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
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