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1 " One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house. "
― Jean Genet , The Balcony
2 " It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. "
3 " You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley.... "
4 " The pimp has a grin, never a smile. "
5 " It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. "
6 " If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy. "
7 " I love you because you're tender and sweet, you the hardest and sternest of men. And your sweetness and tenderness are such that they make you as light as a shred of tulle, subtle as a flake of mist, airy as a caprice. Your thick muscles, your arms, your thighs, your hands, are more unreal than the melting of day into night. You envelop me and I contain you. "
8 " Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it might see? "
