You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....

Jean Genet

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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Jean Genet

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It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

Jean Genet

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It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

Jean Genet

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Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product of misfortune, something to which laws could not be applied. I had exceeded the bounds of indecency.

Jean Genet

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It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel was a cruel pleasure which, I thought, was bound to transfigure my own face, to make me resplendent. I was then 23 years old. From that moment on, I felt capable of advancing in cruelty.

Jean Genet

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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

Jean Genet

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Betrayal is beautiful.

Jean Genet

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[Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious.

Jean Genet


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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.

Jean Genet

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