I don’t want to disappear.
JEAN GENETTo achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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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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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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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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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude.
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