Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
JEAN GENETCrimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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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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I don’t want to disappear.
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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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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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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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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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