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Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.


Jean Baudrillard

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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 Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE 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 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