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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Jean Genet

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Ideas Light Love Myself People
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Hide Language Ourselves Stretch Wrap
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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Brutal Close Flower Nature Relationship
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
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
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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Body Himself Move
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 decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Calm Disturb Violence Yourself
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Experience Horny Morning
Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.
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Cruelty Limitation World
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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Himself Home Street Talk
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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Act Dreams Man Nurse Order Time
They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Fuse Intimacy Time
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Appearance Handsome Men Virtue

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