Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
JEAN GENETI don’t want to disappear.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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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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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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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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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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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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I don’t want to disappear.
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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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