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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Jean Genet

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Betrayal Experience Happiness Pleasure
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Achievement Bad Happiness Harmony Taste
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
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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Himself Home Street Talk
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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Crime Man People Shame True
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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Brutal Close Flower Nature Relationship
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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Audience Delicious Fascination Talk
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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Acknowledgement Artist Moral Murder Save Solitude
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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Application Ideology Liberty Man Object Revolution
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Devil Difference Smile
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Fuse Intimacy Time
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Calm Disturb Violence Yourself
The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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Fight Inspirational Mad Past Reason Time
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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Discover Memories Music Myself New Silence
Betrayal is beautiful.
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Beautiful Betrayal One Liner

Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

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