The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
JEAN GENETEvery premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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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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Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
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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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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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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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