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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

Jean Genet

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
Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
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Dawn Language Morning Name Play Reveal Voice Whisper
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Betrayal Experience Happiness Pleasure
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Devil Difference Smile
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
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself
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
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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Fame Hero Pay Success
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
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Appearance Handsome Men Virtue
Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
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Blessing Evil Place Prison World
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Fact Share Strange
They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Fuse Intimacy Time

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