Betrayal is beautiful.
JEAN GENET
JEAN GENET
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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.
Jean GenetJean Genet The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
Jean GenetJean Genet I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean GenetJean Genet 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.
Jean GenetJean Genet 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.
Jean GenetJean Genet Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
Jean GenetJean Genet 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.
Jean GenetJean Genet The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
Jean GenetJean Genet Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
Jean GenetJean Genet The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Jean GenetJean Genet Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
Jean GenetJean Genet I’m homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It’s a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean GenetJean Genet I don’t want to disappear.
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I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.
Brandon SandersonBrandon Sanderson Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.
Bob SorgeBob Sorge People think it’s a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.
Ben WattBen Watt Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
Barbara KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.
Bart D. EhrmanBart D. Ehrman Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
Erica JongErica Jong The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams