I decided to be what crime made of me.
JEAN GENETI don’t want to disappear.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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I’m homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It’s a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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