Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
JEAN GENET
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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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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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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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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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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