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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

Jean Genet

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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Dawn Language Morning Name Play Reveal Voice Whisper
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
Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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Happiness Herself Kind Slow
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
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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Cruelty Limitation World
I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Coincidence Love Rare Worst
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Calm Disturb Violence Yourself
They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Fuse Intimacy Time
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
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Devil Difference Smile
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
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Happiness Knowledge Royalty Secret Solitude State Understand Vulnerable
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
I don’t want to disappear.
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Disappear Lost Myself

By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

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