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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.


Jean Burden

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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