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.
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My heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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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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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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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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