I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning my exile.Jean Genet
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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