A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENETAdded to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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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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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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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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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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