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To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.


Jean Monnet

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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 There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
JEAN ANOUILH We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasu...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflagg...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be co...
JEAN ANOUILH The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...
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