The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
JEAN GENETViolence is a calm that disturbs you.
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 could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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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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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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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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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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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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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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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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