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.
JEAN GENETI could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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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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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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One can hear all that’s going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what’s going on in this house.
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Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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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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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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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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