There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
JEAN GENETIt’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude.
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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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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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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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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