Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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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Betrayal is beautiful.
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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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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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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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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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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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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 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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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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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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