Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
JEAN GENETThe vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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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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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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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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The 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.
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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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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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