Knock, Knock."
"Who's there?"
"Olive."
"Olive who?"
"Olive...ooh. I love you, too," he said, figuring it out. "You can tell me that one anytime you like." He folded her into his arms.


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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
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
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