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If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.


Jean Piaget

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JEAN GIRAUDOUX Despair is the only genuine atheism.
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JEAN ROSTAND Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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.
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JEAN KERR Without money honor is merely a disease.
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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 Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines ...
JEAN GENET