One can hear all that’s going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what’s going on in this house.
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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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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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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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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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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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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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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 main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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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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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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