I decided to be what crime made of me.
JEAN GENETBetrayal is beautiful.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.
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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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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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Betrayal is beautiful.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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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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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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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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