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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.


Jean Cocteau

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JEAN KERR It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND 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 Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET