L'anthropologie n'est ni une religion à laquelle on adhère, ni une maladie qu'on contracte. Elle est d'un même mouvement un retour sur Soi et sur l'Autre considérés ensemble, mais l'habitude d'une relation à sens unique depuis cinq siècles n'autorise pas l'inversion de cette relation a produire les mêmes effets.
Jean Copans
Related On dit père grec, mère suisse-française... On me demande, mais alors, quelle est votre patrie? Je... GEORGES HALDAS Le développement des connaissances préhistoriques et archéologiques tend à étaler dans l'espace... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Lorsque la sexualité disparaît, c'est le corps de l'autre qui apparaît, dans sa présence vagueme... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Elle avait un don, une aptitude particulière pour vous donner à voir ce qui vous avait échappé, ... NADIA HASHIMI Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r... ROBERT MUSIL Personne n'est capable réellement de penser à personne, fût-ce dans le pire des malheurs. Car pen... ALBERT CAMUS Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est de savoir qui paie les Rédempteurs, pas de me débarrasser d'une poigné... GABRIEL KATZ Reprenant une goulée de cervoise, le capitaine s’essuya les lèvres avec sa manche, se pencha ver... CYRILLE MENDES Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nô... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à c... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillo... JODI PICOULT Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ A une époque de sa vie, il y avait de cela de nombreuses années, elle avait perdu sa foi en Dieu. ... BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD Des jugements, des appréciations de la vie, pour ou contre, ne peuvent, en dernière instance, jama... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n... HENRI BARBUSSE Je parle de cette douleur qui est tellement grande qu'elle ne semble même pas naître à l'intérie... ROSA MONTERO Les tentatives faites pour connaître la richesse et l'originalité des cultures humaines, et pour l... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét... GEORGES PEREC [...] Sans entrer encore dans la question de la « composition du continu », on voit donc que le no... RENé GUéNON La porte s’est ouverte tout de suite et est allée co - gner contre le mur. J’ai perçu un claqu... SYLVIE BéRARD Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque o... MARIE-CLAIRE DOLGHIN-LOYER Il défendait une théorie : les couples ne fréquentent pas les célibataires. D'abord parce que le... LAURENT BETTONI Dans les jours d'après nous distribuerons tes soixante-dix-sept peluches, une par une ou deux par d... SOPHIE DAULL Ces enfants mûrissent trop tôt parce que, ayant été rendus sensibles aux malheurs, c'est ce qu'i... BORIS CYRULNIK Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédi... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ On se prépare à la jouissance du siècle, et, le moment venu, elle a un goût de Fernet Branca. Su... DANIEL PENNAC La vie est un voyage solitaire et, être mariée n'y change rien. D'ailleurs je pense que le fait de... AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG Tous les jours arrivaient des avions et sur chacun, il y avait un message. « Gardez votre eau ... CHRISTIANE DUCHESNE La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait... ERIC CLAPTON Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE L'objectivité, vécue dans ce rêve et dans ces visions, relève de l'individuation accomplie. Elle... C.G. JUNG Nous savons qu'il advient dans nos vies des choses qui nous semblent totalement inconnues et totalem... C.G. JUNG La vie est un défi à relever, un bonheur à mériter, une aventure à tenter. MOTHER TERESA Quand il mangeait des babas ou des éclairs, il se sentait coupable jusqu'à l'âme, à cause de la ... BOILEAU-NARCEJAC Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inv... JACQUES POULIN Comment des sociétés contemporaines, restées ignorantes de l'électricité et de la machine à va... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS À s'accorder tant d'importance à soi-même, à s'agiter et à se débattre, on passe à côté de ... ETTY HILLESUM Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois. ALEXANDRE DUMAS Chaque jour qui commence est une page vierge. Une étendue de temps qui n’a pas encore été vécu... CATHERINE RAMBERT Avec quelque spontanéité que nous obéissions à la voix qui nous dicte cette abnégation, nous se... ÉMILE DURKHEIM [A propos du faux évolutionnisme] Il s'agit d'une tentative pour supprimer la diversité des cultur... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul .../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Vous avez déjà perdu quelqu'un de proche? [...] Vous n'avez jamais l'impression que ces êtres-là... LAURENT GAUDé C’est ainsi que, par exemple, l’idée de l’Infini, qui est en réalité la plus positive de to... RENé GUéNON Le monde est dangereux à vivre ! Non pas tant à cause de ceux qui font le mal, mais à cause de ce... ALBERT EINSTEIN La civilisation occidentale s'est entièrement tournée, depuis deux ou trois siècles, vers la mise... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS La monnaie est souvent mythifiée, conçue comme magique et obscure. Son ambivalence fondamentale fa... EMMANUEL TODD Etre parfaitement adapté à une société profondément malade n'est pas forcément un signe de bon... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Qu'est-ce que le roman, en effet, sinon cet univers où l'action trouve sa forme, où les mots de la... ALBERT CAMUS Mais Frida ne se représente pas comme un personnage sacré, car elle constate son état avec une cr... HAYDEN HERRERA La parenté de l'égyptien ancien et du berbère n'est plus à démontrer. Bien que les affinités l... MOHAMMED CHAFIK Le génie de l'oeuvre de Rowling réside non seulement dans son art de raconter des histoires, mais ... BASSHAM GREGORY Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait à lui s... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY J'ai encore un vif souvenir de Freud me disant : "Mon cher Jung, promettez-moi de ne jamais abandonn... C.G. JUNG J’ai déjà dit que la Communauté juive s’était chargée de recruter les travailleurs pour le ... BERNARD GOLDSTEIN Si nous avons accordé à l'Amérique le privilège de l'histoire cumulative, n'est-ce pas, en effet... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Corto à lui même: Ce serait bon de vivre dans une fable. Bouche Dorée à Corto: Oh oui!… M... HUGO PRATT L’homme cherche un principe au nom duquel il puisse mépriser l’homme ; il invente un autre mond... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Moi qui éprouve, comme chacun, le besoin d’être reconnu, je me sens pur en toi et vais à toi. J... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Le montant des dépenses mondiales de publicité et de sponsoring approchait 600 milliards de dollar... JEAN GADREY Sur terre, ce ne sont pas les occasions de s'émerveiller qui manquent, mais les émerveillés. ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Et j'emmerde tous les gens bien-pensants qui estiment qu'un homme et une femme ne peuvent se limiter... DAN DASTIER Il est également vrai qu'un échange est une transaction dans laquelle les deux contractants gagnen... ANTOINE DESTUTT DE TRACY Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il... RENé GUéNON Si tu entamais ces friandises ? Ah, les Dragées surprises de Bertie Crochue ! Un jour, quand j’é... J.K. ROWLING Respecter une femme, c'est pouvoir envisager l'amitié avec elle ; ce qui n'exclut pas le jeu de la ... TAHAR BEN JELLOUN L'amour altruiste est la joie de partager la vie de ceux qui nous entourent, compagne, enfants, pare... MATTHIEU RICARD En effet: je mourais déjà. Je venais d'apprendre cette nouvelle horrible que tout humain apprend u... AMéLIE NOTHOMB Gauvin reprit : -Et la femme? qu'en faites-vous? Cimourdain répondit: -Ce qu'elle es... VICTOR HUGO il n'est ni sagesse, ni calcul, ni science de l'eau quand elle dissout les digues et engloutit les v... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Elle avait supplié Dieu de lui concéder au moins un instant afin qu'il ne s'en allât pas sans sav... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ? JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Si, bien avant la puberté, et parfois même dès sa toute petite enfance, elle nous apparaît déj�... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne Vous... GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE J'avais eu peur en effet de mourir dans les geôles colonialistes sans laisser à l'Algérie, à mes... MALEK BENNABI مالك بن نبي L’ambition des principaux profita de ces circonstances pour perpétuer leurs charges dans leurs fa... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Une froideur ou une incivilité qui vient de ceux qui sont au-dessus de nous nous les fait haïr, ma... JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE A kiss on one cheek makes her blush both cheeks. (Un bisou sur une joue - Fait rougir les deux joues... CHARLES DE LEUSSE - J’aidais justement Ghezumi et Kassergh à bâter l’hypocras : du vin au miel avec de la cannel... CYRILLE MENDES Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien... CAMILLE L. Il n'y a que deux ou trois crimes à faire dans le monde, dit Curval, et, ceux-là faits, tout est d... MARQUIS DE SADE En effet, lorsque l'époque où un homme de talent est obligé de vivre est plate et bête, l'artist... JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS Quant à nous, nous respectons çà et là et nous épargnons partout le passé, pourvu qu'il consen... VICTOR HUGO Oui, je me rappelai. Je connaissais le creux de ce corps protecteur. Je connaissais les batteme... CARINA ROZENFELD A qui écris-tu? -A toi. En fait, je ne t'écris pas vraiment, j'écris ce que j'ai envie de fa... ANNA GAVALDA Tel fut aussi le cas d'un Nietzsche, génie volcanique s'il en est ; ici encore - mais d'une façon ... FRITHJOF SCHUON Mais elle sait que rien ne sera plus pareil, plus d'interdit, fini le frisson du mensonge qui écras... SYLVIE LE BIHAN Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possèd... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mes joues creuses et mon regard perçant ne facilitent pas les choses quand il s'agit de franchir un... BJøRN GABRIELSEN Elle lui semblait si belle, si séduisante, si différente des gens du commun qu'il ne comprenait pa... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ La vie est une farce, apprends à rire. MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS S'il est vrai que l'expérience de l'éveil sort de l'ordinaire, elle n'arrive pourtant pas à des p... JACK KORNFIELD Quoi qu’il en soit, Leibnitz ne sut jamais s’expliquer nettement sur les principes de son calcul... RENé GUéNON As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l... NEIL GAIMAN Ah ! cher ami, que les hommes sont pauvres en invention. Ils croient toujours qu'on se suicide pour ... ALBERT CAMUS Sans doute te demandes-tu si je ne suis pas aigri de n'en avoir écrit aucun. Eh bien, non! Mon tale... ALEXANDRE JARDIN Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible... GEORGES PEREC J'ai quitté Paris et même la France, parce que la Tour Eiffel finissait par m'ennuyer trop. Non se... GUY DE MAUPASSANT On suffoquait, les chevelures s'alourdissaient sur les têtes en sueur. Depuis trois heures qu'on é... ÉMILE ZOLA L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique: savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur et accélérer quand même... FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER
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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... 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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... 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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 My only hope lies in my despair. JEAN RACINE Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. JEAN KERR Without money honor is merely a disease. JEAN RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. 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 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... JEAN BAUDRILLARD One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while... JEAN BAUDRILLARD The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corn... JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're cau... JEAN ANOUILH Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny t... JEAN BAUDRILLARD We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters ... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o... JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a ... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by p... JEAN ANOUILH Tact is knowing how far to go too far. JEAN COCTEAU Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. JEAN COCTEAU One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. JEAN ANOUILH If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characteriz... JEAN PIAGET The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. JEAN GIRAUDOUX If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. JEAN COCTEAU Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just para... JEAN BAUDRILLARD I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. JEAN ROSTAND Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth an... JEAN COCTEAU The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he ... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. JEAN ANOUILH A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit th... JEAN LUSH I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one stri... JEAN RHYS Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s. JEAN PAUL What you get free costs too much. JEAN ANOUILH Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the c... JEAN BAUDRILLARD As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning ... JEAN BAUDRILLARD To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his... JEAN BAUDRILLARD If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ... JEAN BAUDRILLARD There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of af... JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. JEAN ANOUILH We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasu... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. JEAN TOOMER Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflagg... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be co... JEAN ANOUILH The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs... JEAN BAUDRILLARD We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? JEAN COCTEAU We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of ex... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinar... JEAN BAUDRILLARD Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or li... JEAN COCTEAU