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 GENETThey spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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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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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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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.
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Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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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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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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