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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.


Jean Genet

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DEYTH BANGER They agree that it's a hazard, and they said to take it down.
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JOE COWAN No question. They demonstrated to the world they can organize.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.
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PHILIP T. M. We can't complain, but we don't necessarily agree with it. Still, it's something we can live with.
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TAHAR RAHIM Everything in this Universe is contained in your breathe, so just Breathe.
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SARA SHERIDAN If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go.
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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