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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Jean Genet

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
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself
One can hear all that’s going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what’s going on in this house.
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Himself Home Street Talk
I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Ideas Light Love Myself People
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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Authentic Beauty Himself Man Quit Solitude Source Temporary Wound
Betrayal is beautiful.
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Beautiful Betrayal One Liner
I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
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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Feeling Flaw Follow Himself Man Remember Save
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Hide Language Ourselves Stretch Wrap
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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Commitment Creation Creature Game Heart Light Run
The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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Fight Inspirational Mad Past Reason Time
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Fact Share Strange
Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.
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Cruelty Limitation World
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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Eyes Myself Question Sexuality Silly

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