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.
JEAN GENETErotic 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.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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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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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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