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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Jean Genet

The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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Fight Inspirational Mad Past Reason Time
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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Himself Home Street Talk
Betrayal is beautiful.
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Beautiful Betrayal One Liner
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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Cocaine Live Touch
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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Beautiful Myself Recognition Thief
I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Hide Language Ourselves Stretch Wrap
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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Beautiful Death Life Moments See
It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Break Day Let Go Myself Night
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Devil Difference Smile
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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Crime Man People Shame True
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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Authentic Beauty Himself Man Quit Solitude Source Temporary Wound
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Coincidence Love Rare Worst
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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Act Dreams Man Nurse Order Time
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True

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