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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

Jean Genet

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
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Beautiful Death Life Moments See
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Calm Disturb Violence Yourself
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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Application Ideology Liberty Man Object Revolution
I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Ideas Light Love Myself People
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Coincidence Love Rare Worst
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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Himself Home Street Talk
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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End Gun Image Power Shadow Weapon
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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Commitment Creation Creature Game Heart Light Run
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Betrayal Experience Happiness
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot — the sail he has seen.
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Feeling Flaw Follow Himself Man Remember Save
I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Achievement Bad Happiness Harmony Taste
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Experience Horny Morning
They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Fuse Intimacy Time
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Hide Language Ourselves Stretch Wrap

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

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