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.

JEAN GENET

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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.

Jean Genet

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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.

JEAN GENET

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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New
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

JEAN GENET

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET

Order
The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

JEAN GENET

The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
JEAN GENET

Mad
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

JEAN GENET

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET
I don’t want to disappear.

JEAN GENET

I don’t want to disappear.
JEAN GENET
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?

JEAN GENET

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
JEAN GENET

Audience Fascination
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.

JEAN GENET

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.
JEAN GENET

Branch
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

JEAN GENET

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENET
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.

JEAN GENET

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.
JEAN GENET

See
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.

JEAN GENET

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.
JEAN GENET

Behavior
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.

JEAN GENET

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.
JEAN GENET

Flaw
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

JEAN GENET

By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
JEAN GENET

Language Stretch Wrap
On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

JEAN GENET

On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
JEAN GENET

Move
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.

JEAN GENET

There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
JEAN GENET

Horny
Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

JEAN GENET

Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
JEAN GENET

Monster Ornament Projection
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.

JEAN GENET

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.
JEAN GENET

Agreement

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