There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
JEAN GENETWould Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
More Jean Genet Quotes
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I don’t want to disappear.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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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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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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without 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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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 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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Betrayal is beautiful.
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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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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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My heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
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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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