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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

Jean Genet

Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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Beautiful Monster Ornament Projection Purity Ugly
I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
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
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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Break Poet Poetry Visible Writing
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
Betrayal is beautiful.
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Beautiful Betrayal One Liner
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Appearance Handsome Men Virtue
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Calm Disturb Violence Yourself
Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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Happiness Herself Kind Slow
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Hide Language Ourselves Stretch Wrap
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.
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Agreement Breathe Crime Hope Virtue World
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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Black Branch Country Hate Man Myself Plant
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude.
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Authentic Beauty Himself Man Quit Solitude Source Temporary Wound

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

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