Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
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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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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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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Betrayal is beautiful.
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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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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.
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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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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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