What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENETViolence is a calm that disturbs you.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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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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If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.
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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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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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One can hear all that’s going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what’s going on in this house.
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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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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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