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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Jean Genet

I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Experience Horny Morning
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Betrayal Experience Happiness
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
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
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Devil Difference Smile
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Achievement Bad Happiness Harmony Taste
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
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Hide Language Ourselves Stretch Wrap
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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Fame Hero Pay Success
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot — the sail he has seen.
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Feeling Flaw Follow Himself Man Remember Save
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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Beautiful Myself Recognition Thief
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself

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