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

Jean Genet

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
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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Beautiful Death Life Moments See
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Coincidence Love Rare Worst
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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Government Mindset Murder
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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Dawn Language Morning Name Play Reveal Voice Whisper
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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Cruelty Limitation World
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
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Appearance Handsome Men Virtue
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Devil Difference Smile
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
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Happiness Knowledge Royalty Secret Solitude State Understand Vulnerable
I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Ideas Light Love Myself People
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
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
It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Break Day Let Go Myself Night
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True

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

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