Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
JEAN GENETThe pimp has a grin, never a smile.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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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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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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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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Betrayal is beautiful.
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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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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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I don’t want to disappear.
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