Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy 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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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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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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If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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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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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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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