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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
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Jean Genet
Age: 75 †
Born: 1910
Born: December 19
Died: 1986
Died: April 15
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Betrayal is beautiful.
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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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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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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.
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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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I don't want to disappear.
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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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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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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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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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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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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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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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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
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In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky
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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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