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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.

Jean Genet

It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Ideas Light Love Myself People
They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Fuse Intimacy Time
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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Himself Home Street Talk
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.
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Commitment Creation Creature Game Heart Light Run
It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Break Day Let Go Myself Night
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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Act Dreams Man Nurse Order Time
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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Cocaine Live Touch
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Achievement Bad Happiness Harmony Taste
Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Betrayal Experience Happiness Pleasure
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Devil Difference Smile
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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Brutal Close Flower Nature Relationship
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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Hand Heart Myself Trap
Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
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Greatness Imagination Man Universe Wild

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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