On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
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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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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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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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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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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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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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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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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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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