Betrayal is beautiful.
JEAN GENETTo achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
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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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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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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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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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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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.
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When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
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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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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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