It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
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JEAN RACINE Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
JEAN BRYANT Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han...
JEAN COCTEAU There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra...
JEAN GENET To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
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