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

Jean Genet

I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Fact Share Strange
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
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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Eyes Myself Question Sexuality Silly
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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Audience Delicious Fascination Talk
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
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
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
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
I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
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 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
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Achievement Bad Happiness Harmony Taste
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Calm Disturb Violence Yourself
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

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