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.
JEAN GENETTo achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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I don’t want to disappear.
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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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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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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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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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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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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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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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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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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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