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Them Quotes by Jean Genet
- The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
- When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite…
- In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed…
- There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
- ...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of…
- I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice…
- They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
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