The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.


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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
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