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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.
By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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, Prisoner of Love
Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.
Here there's no possibility of doing evil. You live in evil. In the absence of remorse. How could you do evil?
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
JEAN GENET, Prisoner of Love
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
JEAN GENET, The Thief's Journal
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
I don't want to disappear.
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