I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
JEAN GENETWhat we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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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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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
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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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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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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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