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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

They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Fuse Intimacy Time
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude.
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Authentic Beauty Himself Man Quit Solitude Source Temporary Wound
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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Convict Flower Relationship
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
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Fact Share Strange
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Born Hate Ideas Need
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
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
If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
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Achievement Behavior Change Destroy Reflection
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
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
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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Justice Man Management Reason Trigger Weapon
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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Experience Horny Morning
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
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Appearance Handsome Men Virtue

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