Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?


Jean Genet

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The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent repro...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, an...
JEAN ANOUILH
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
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