I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
JEAN GENET
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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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.
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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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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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Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude.
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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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