What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.
JEAN GENETThey spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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