It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
JEAN GENETLove makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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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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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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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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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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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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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.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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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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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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