What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENETThey spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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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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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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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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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it’s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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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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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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