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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.

Jean Genet

Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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Beautiful Monster Ornament Projection Purity Ugly
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
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
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Fact Share Strange
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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Discover Memories Music Myself New Silence
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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Government Mindset Murder
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Coincidence Love Rare Worst
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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Justice Man Management Reason Trigger Weapon
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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Dreams Realize Regret Worst Young Yourself Youth
They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Fuse Intimacy Time
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Calm Disturb Violence Yourself
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 decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
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
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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Body Himself Move

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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