Betrayal is beautiful.
JEAN GENETWhat we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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 main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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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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Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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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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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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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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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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I don’t want to disappear.
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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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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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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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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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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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