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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Jean Genet

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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Coincidence Love Rare Worst
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Fact Share Strange
I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Crime Decision Myself
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
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Devil Difference Smile
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
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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Discover Memories Music Myself New Silence
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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Cocaine Live Touch
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Bold Dangerous Lying Name Violence
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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Black Branch Country Hate Man Myself Plant
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
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
I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Ideas Light Love Myself People
It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Born Fake Image True
Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Betrayal Experience Happiness Pleasure
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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