By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
JEAN GENETViolence is a calm that disturbs you.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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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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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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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
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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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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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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