Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENETPerhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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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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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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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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