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Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.


Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dira...
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ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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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