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Betrayal is beautiful.

Jean Genet

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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Brutal Close Flower Nature Relationship
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Fact Share Strange
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Coincidence Love Rare Worst
Betrayal is beautiful.
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Beautiful Betrayal One Liner
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Appearance Handsome Men Virtue
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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Cocaine Live Touch
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot — the sail he has seen.
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Feeling Flaw Follow Himself Man Remember Save
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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Audience Delicious Fascination Talk
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
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Government Mindset Murder
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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Application Ideology Liberty Man Object Revolution
I’m homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It’s a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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Eyes Myself Question Sexuality Silly
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Achievement Bad Happiness Harmony Taste
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 gun.
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End Gun Image Power Shadow Weapon

Betrayal is beautiful.

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