What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENETI give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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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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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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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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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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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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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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