The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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I don’t want to disappear.
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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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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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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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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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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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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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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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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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