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.
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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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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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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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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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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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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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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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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I don’t want to disappear.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.
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