Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENET
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
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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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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.
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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot — the sail he has seen.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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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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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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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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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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