Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
JEAN GENETMy heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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My heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
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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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Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.
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Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
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If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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