There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
JEAN GENETI decided to be what crime made of me.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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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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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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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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