The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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.
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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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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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My heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
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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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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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I’m homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It’s a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
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