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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
"[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor."
"The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."
"The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life."
Explore more quotes by Jean Genet
"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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