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I was already refusing to have taste. I forbade myself to have it. I knew that the cultivation of it would have not refined me but softened me.
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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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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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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 the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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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First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You.... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up....
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Our domestic life and the law of our Homes do not resemble your Homes. We love each other without love. Our homes do not have the sacramental character. Fags are the great immoralists.
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I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.
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Born:
December 19, 1910
Died:
April 15, 1986
(aged 75)
Bio:
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing.
Known for:
The Maids (1958)
The Balcony (1956)
The Blacks: A Clown Show (1958)
Our Lady of the Flowers (1943)
The Screens (1961)
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