Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
JEAN GENETI decided to be what crime made of me.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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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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Every 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.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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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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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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Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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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