It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
JEAN GENETOne 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.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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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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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 give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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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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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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