"Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence."

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Source : Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Jean Genet

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“My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.”
“True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.”
“When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.”
“In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'”

Source : "Abu Ghraib prisoners escape" by Dana Bash, Elise Labott, Nermeen al-Mufti, Barbara Starr, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Ayman Mohyeldin and Jennifer Yuille, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2005.
“I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.”
“Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.”
“A purely materialistic art would be...”
“What about your constitutional right to bear arms, you say. I would simply point out that you donâ€™t have to exercise a constitutional right just because you have it. You have the constitutional right to run for president of the United States, but most people have too much sense to insist on exercising it.”

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