The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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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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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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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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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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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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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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Betrayal is beautiful.
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