Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
JEAN GENETWorse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
JEAN GENETPrisons! 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.
JEAN GENETEvery 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.
JEAN GENETOn him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
JEAN GENETIt’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
JEAN GENETBetrayal is beautiful.
JEAN GENETOne 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 GENETPerhaps 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.
JEAN GENETLove makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
JEAN GENETThough they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
JEAN GENETThe 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.
JEAN GENETCreation 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.
JEAN GENETThere is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
JEAN GENETI decided to be what crime made of me.
JEAN GENETViolence is a calm that disturbs you.
JEAN GENETI give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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