I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
JEAN GENETThough they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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 knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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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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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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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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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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I decided to be what crime made of 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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