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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

It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
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
I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
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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Brutal Close Flower Nature Relationship
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Experience Horny Morning
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it’s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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End Gun Image Power Shadow Weapon
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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Act Dreams Man Nurse Order Time
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
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
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
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
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
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Achievement Bad Happiness Harmony Taste
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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Feeling Flaw Follow Himself Man Remember Save
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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Application Ideology Liberty Man Object Revolution

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