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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.

Jean Genet

Betrayal is beautiful.
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Beautiful Betrayal One Liner
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Betrayal Experience Happiness
It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Break Day Let Go Myself Night
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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Beautiful Myself Recognition Thief
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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Break Poet Poetry Visible Writing
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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Acknowledgement Artist Moral Murder Save Solitude
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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Greatness Imagination Man Universe Wild
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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Application Ideology Liberty Man Object Revolution
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Experience Horny Morning
The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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Fight Inspirational Mad Past Reason Time
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Fact Share Strange
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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Justice Man Management Reason Trigger Weapon
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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Fame Hero Pay Success
Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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Happiness Herself Kind Slow

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