There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
JEAN GENETWhat 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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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 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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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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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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Betrayal is beautiful.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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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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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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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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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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