It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
JEAN GENETThere are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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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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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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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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I don’t want to disappear.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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