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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Jean Genet

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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Fame Hero Pay Success
The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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Fight Inspirational Mad Past Reason Time
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Calm Disturb Violence Yourself
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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Beautiful Myself Recognition Thief
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
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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Greatness Imagination Man Universe Wild
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Hide Language Ourselves Stretch Wrap
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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Crime Man People Shame True
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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Himself Home Street Talk
It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Break Day Let Go Myself Night
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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Beautiful Monster Ornament Projection Purity Ugly
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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Black Branch Country Hate Man Myself Plant
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENET

Fact Share Strange
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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Break Poet Poetry Visible Writing

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