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.
JEAN GENETPoetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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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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