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Jean Genet

"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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"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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Charlotte Eriksson

"There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!"

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Charlotte Eriksson

"If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross."

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"My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open."

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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."

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"I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger."

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"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

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"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all."

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"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."

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"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."

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"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

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"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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"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."

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