The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
JEAN GENETRepudiating 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.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot — the sail he has seen.
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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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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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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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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
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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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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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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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