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 GENETBetrayal is beautiful.
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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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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.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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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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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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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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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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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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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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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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 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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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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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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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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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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