They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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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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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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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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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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
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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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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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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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