Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
JEAN GENET
They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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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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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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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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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.
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I’m homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It’s a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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.
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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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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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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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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