The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
JEAN GENETLove makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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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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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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I decided to be what crime made of 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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it’s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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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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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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