A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENETThe main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.
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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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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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When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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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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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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