It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
JEAN GENETI decided to be what crime made of me.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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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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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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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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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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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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I don’t want to disappear.
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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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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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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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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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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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