Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
JEAN GENETAnyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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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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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 give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
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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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Betrayal is beautiful.
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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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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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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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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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