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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Jean Genet

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Appearance Handsome Men Virtue
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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Crime Man People Shame True
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
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
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself
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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Government Mindset Murder
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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Agreement Breathe Crime Hope Virtue World
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
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
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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End Gun Image Power Shadow Weapon
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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Beautiful Monster Ornament Projection Purity Ugly
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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Brutal Close Flower Nature Relationship
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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Hand Heart Myself Trap
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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Beautiful Death Life Moments See

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