The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
JEAN GENETLove makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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I don’t want to disappear.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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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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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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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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Betrayal is beautiful.
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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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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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.
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On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
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