A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENETErotic 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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On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
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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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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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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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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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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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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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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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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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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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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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