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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.


Jean Dubuffet

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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...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD