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.
JEAN GENETThe pimp has a grin, never a smile.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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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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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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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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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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