Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
JEAN GENET
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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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 are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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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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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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Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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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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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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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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