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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.

Jean Genet

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
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
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Achievement Bad Happiness Harmony Taste
I’m homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It’s a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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Eyes Myself Question Sexuality Silly
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Calm Disturb Violence Yourself
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
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Blessing Evil Place Prison World
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Experience Horny Morning
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
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
They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Fuse Intimacy Time
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Hide Language Ourselves Stretch Wrap
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.
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Agreement Breathe Crime Hope Virtue World
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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Dreams Realize Regret Worst Young Yourself Youth

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