Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENETI give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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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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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.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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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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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
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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.
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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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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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