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Jean Genet Quotes: 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.
         

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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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.



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Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.



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The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.





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