Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
JEAN GENETOn him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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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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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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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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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 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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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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