Betrayal is beautiful.
JEAN GENETIt’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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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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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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