There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
JEAN GENETBetrayal is beautiful.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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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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What 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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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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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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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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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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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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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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