I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
JEAN GENETBetrayal is beautiful.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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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 is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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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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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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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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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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