What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENETThere is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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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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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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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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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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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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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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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it’s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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