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It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.


Jean Racine

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It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.
BARRY CORNWALL Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.
CHARLES KENNEDY The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, ...
DONNA LYNN HOPE She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its...
ANNE EDWARDS Its warmth was not heat, and its cool was not cold
FERDUSI OF PERSIA We got such a certificate in 2001 but in its next verification it was no longer suitable. Therefore,...
MARTANI HUSEINI The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. T...
JOSE RIZAL A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first ki...
CARMEN DESOUSA Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the cultur...
TIM COOK We feel Jean will best address the veterans? issues we have expressed throughout our entire campaign...
BOB MILLS The teeth of a tigress holding its cub tenderly are the same that ferociously devour its prey .
DR. ANIRUDH KAPOOR You say to Billie Jean, 'Boy, what's wrong with Venus' serve?' - that's an hour.
MARY CARILLO It's now in its second year; it's no longer a juvenile. But this one particular whooping crane doesn...
TOM STEHN Long legs and longer arms, each tipped with a row of black talons. Sinewy. Wiry. And above all, huma...
BLAKE CROUCH Like a shark hunting its prey, time moves forward, never back.
XANDERL Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool
IRISH SAYINGS A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justif...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their just...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE It endangers the mother-state, poisons its democracy, corrupts its enlightenment and thwarts its abi...
ARI SHAVIT I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal w...
ELIN STEBBINS WALDAL There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like...
ANDREW VACHSS I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
BARRY MANILOW In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-just...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its...
J. G. BALLARD The Bible is the only book that hangs its entire credibility on its ability to write history in adva...
CHUCK MISSLER Hunter versus prey, and the look in his eyes told her, in no uncertain terms, eating her alive was a...
KELLY MORAN But nowadays my heart is empty and the boxwood has lost its magic scent; yes, absolutely and entirel...
JULIAN GREEN I cant tell you how long its going to be, ... Cartilage scopes typically can be two weeks, sometimes...
MIKE HOLMGREN Aber du willst nur mein sein unter Bedingungen, während ich dir bedingungslos gehöre.
LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to ge...
JUDY HAYLES What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it...
MIHAIL SEBASTIAN This turns the entire telecom industry picture on its head,
JEFF PULVER A star is a rock that could no longer hide its beauty from the world.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO My panties were still on but he didn’t let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing ...
EMME ROLLINS You see her knocking on the door at the beginning of the show. Jean won't let her in because it's he...
DOUG CASKEY Men prey on a girl like her, so pretty and innocent,
ELEANOR COOPER Its no use boiling your cabbage twice.
IRISH PROVERB The roof is on its side. Does that mean the boat is on its side . . . or ?"
"YES that's what i...
TRENTON OLDFIELD Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment. It is a tiger that tears not only its prey but ...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasio...
JUAN GOYTISOLO No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he put...
JESUS CHRIST Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden a...
MICHAEL KORDA Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss, Than b...
THOMAS MOORE Learn from the Sun; on account of its warmth it doesn’t need to beg anyone to esteem it
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When we can no longer change a situation, its the time to changed our self.
GLENDA RADORES This was a top predator that probably was 3.9m long and swam around using its jagged teeth to bite a...
DIEGO POL This Universe belongs to the predator who dares to prey on its natural & human resources for the ben...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won...
UDAY KOTAK Love in its essence is unconditional. When conditions, exceptions, and ultimatums are cast into the ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world
MUNIA KHAN When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its bea...
CHRIS PETERSON My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer n...
JOSHUA PRAGER The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associ...
LOUIS DE BROGLIE This was a top predator that probably was 13 feet long and swam around using its jagged teeth to bit...
DIEGO POL Venus Express has already traveled almost once around the globe, and it is then heading out towards ...
MANFRED WARHAUT She had stars in her eyes and galaxies in her veins
ROSIE PERRY External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chil...
CHARLES DICKENS That whole program took on a life of its own.
STEPHEN KING Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and do...
ALICE MEYNELL This was a great, great hidden battle, overshadowed by Shiloh, Franklin, Tenn., and Gettysburg, ... ...
MIKE MOORE 2. Christian education places its emphasis on “unity” in relationships between people.
JAMES C. DOBSON She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.
LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH The US is still recognized as a leading place to do business, the home of desirable brands and popul...
SIMON ANHOLT The longer it goes on, the harder its going to be.
NICHOLAS SPARKS What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE God as God is feeling … yet shut up, hidden; … Christ is the unclosed, open feeling of the heart...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both wil...
E. M. FORSTER Rather than be eaten away from below, Cisco gets to protect its business a little longer.
CHARLES GOLVIN I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my ...
CHRIS PRATT The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its...
J. G. BALLARD She disappeared; her voice, her laughter, and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again.
DURGESH SATPATHY It was so demoralizing to lose my body and begin to realize that my whole future may be set on its e...
LAURA HILLENBRAND More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Puti...
GARRY KASPAROV Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c...
WOODROW WILSON Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c...
CHARLES DICKENS What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
UNKNOWN What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. Af...
PAT CADIGAN Life showed my her back and I touched its ass
XEVI CASTELLà TUBERT We both knew what was for dinner as snake like, your tongue slithered up my leg to the inside of my ...
VIRGINIA ALISON It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...
WILKIE COLLINS The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its...
J. G. BALLARD When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel t...
HUGH ELLIOTT Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
CHARLES DICKENS Its not a mission of mine to end the year No.1,
LINDSAY DAVENPORT We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
EMILY DICKINSON No plan, in its current configuration, is perfect.
ROLAND BETTS The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI They were games of heart, of warmth, of smiles and generosity. It was Italy at its best.
JEAN CLAUDE KILLY I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL The whole issue has really taken on a momentum of its own.
LENORA PATE Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The environmental rationale has been eliminated. It's outlived its usefulness and no longer needs to...
ED MURPHY And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not on...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

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Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE Without money honor is merely a disease.
JEAN RACINE Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
JEAN RACINE There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
JEAN RACINE Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
JEAN RACINE A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadnes...
JEAN RACINE Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covere...
JEAN RACINE I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
JEAN RACINE A single word often betrays a great design.
JEAN RACINE A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sa...
JEAN RACINE I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
JEAN RACINE There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
JEAN RACINE On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
JEAN RACINE I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
JEAN RACINE A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
JEAN RACINE How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
JEAN RACINE The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme ...
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE A friend in need is a friend indeed.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importun...
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE But without money honor is nothing but a malady
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE None love, but they who wish to love
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Innocence also weighs
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE The heart that can no longer love passionately, must with fury hate
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Often it is fatal to live too long.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Hate your haters, then you are no different
from them.
RACINE BAMWANYA We feel good about our chances. Everyone's healthy and in good shape, but more so than anything else...
DERRICK RACINE The guys team this year is young, and we're certainly not the most experienced team in the field. Bu...
DERRICK RACINE Any and all pressure we feel, we put on ourselves.
DERRICK RACINE We're a pretty good team, but our shots weren't falling. We hung in there and it was close. I told t...
DON RACINE It's great. We're catching up to the boys as far as being one of the better leagues in the state. It...
DON RACINE Defensively, we did a great job. With a team like that, you really have to guard the three.
DON RACINE There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD 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 The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND 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 It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND 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 Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND 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 divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU 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 What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAU Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for w...
JEAN ROSTAND Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENET Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes...
JEAN PAUL No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
JEAN PAUL The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...
JEAN GENET To hate fatigues.
JEAN ROSTAND There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat,...
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.
JEAN ROSTAND Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
JEAN KERR 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 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 Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
JEAN COCTEAU What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the art...
JEAN COCTEAU The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries hav...
JEAN DUBUFFET Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAU If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomf...
JEAN COCTEAU The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent repro...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so...
JEAN GENET Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, an...
JEAN ANOUILH There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former...
JEAN GENET At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager face...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Nothing is irreparable in politics.
JEAN ANOUILH If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they...
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