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"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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"If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush."
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"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see."
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"You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open."
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Explore more quotes by Jean Genet

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

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

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

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

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

"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."
People

"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."
American

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

"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."
Power

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