They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
JEAN GENETA man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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My heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot — the sail he has seen.
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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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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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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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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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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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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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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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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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