Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.
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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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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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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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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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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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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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