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.
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On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
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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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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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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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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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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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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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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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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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