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Jean Genet quotes: Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
Jean Genet quotes: He already had one foot in the winter of heaven. He was going to be whisked up. He already had one foot in the winter of heaven. He was going to be whisked up.
Jean Genet quotes: A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet quotes: The pimp has a grin, never a smile. The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
Jean Genet quotes: Faggots are the great immoralists. Faggots are the great immoralists.
Jean Genet quotes: Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Jean Genet quotes: By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me. By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.
Jean Genet quotes: Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
Jean Genet quotes: The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable. The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
Jean Genet quotes: What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
Jean Genet quotes: Divine was metamorphosed into one of those monsters that are painted on walls, for a customer murmured a magic word: 'homoseckshual Divine was metamorphosed into one of those monsters that are painted on walls, for a customer murmured a magic word: 'homoseckshual
Jean Genet quotes: The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Jean Genet quotes: Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
Jean Genet quotes: But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling. But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling.
Jean Genet quotes: Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all. Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.
Jean Genet quotes: The door made the usual, terrifying sound of a door. The door made the usual, terrifying sound of a door.
Jean Genet quotes: We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning. We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.
Jean Genet quotes: My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman. My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman.
Jean Genet quotes: On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body. On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
Jean Genet quotes: Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it might see? Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it might see?
Jean Genet quotes: The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Jean Genet quotes: Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
Jean Genet quotes: Violence is a calm that disturbs you. Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
Jean Genet quotes: Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
Jean Genet quotes: To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Jean Genet quotes: My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught. My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.
Jean Genet quotes: They spent their time doing nothing ... they let intimacy fuse them. They spent their time doing nothing ... they let intimacy fuse them.
Jean Genet quotes: Hell has degrees, so does love Hell has degrees, so does love
Jean Genet quotes: There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny. There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
Jean Genet quotes: I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean Genet quotes: I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet quotes: To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone. To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.
Jean Genet quotes: It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
Jean Genet quotes: Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
Jean Genet quotes: Betrayal is beautiful. Betrayal is beautiful.
Jean Genet quotes: I don't want to disappear. I don't want to disappear.
Jean Genet quotes: Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jean Genet quotes: The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad. The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
Jean Genet quotes: I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me. I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
Jean Genet quotes: Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears! Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!
Jean Genet quotes: For I do not love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always handsome and sometimes oppressed but stand up and rebel For I do not love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always handsome and sometimes oppressed but stand up and rebel
Jean Genet quotes: [Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious. [Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious.
Jean Genet quotes: One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house. One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.
Jean Genet quotes: He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair. He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair.
Jean Genet quotes: By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
Jean Genet quotes: I decided to be what crime made of me, I decided to be what crime made of me,
Jean Genet quotes: It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
Jean Genet quotes: Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet quotes: The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice. The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
Jean Genet quotes: Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is. Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.
Jean Genet quotes: Divine departed as she would have desired, in a mixture of fantasy and sordidness. Divine departed as she would have desired, in a mixture of fantasy and sordidness.
Jean Genet quotes: Even there, intimacy evolved its alchemy. A solemn marble stairway led to corridors covered with red carpets, upon which one moved noiselessly. Even there, intimacy evolved its alchemy. A solemn marble stairway led to corridors covered with red carpets, upon which one moved noiselessly.
Jean Genet quotes: Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her. Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
Jean Genet quotes: I'm homosexual ... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. I'm homosexual ... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet quotes: Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
Jean Genet quotes: 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. 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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