Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
JEAN GENETBy stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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My heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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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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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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