. It entered his vein, and the initiation proceeded. Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. He was good-looking–as are all the males in this book, powerful and lithe, and unaware of their grace. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. They open to me hidden treasures of happiness. Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. ― Jean Genet, quote from Our Lady of the Flowers, “Alberto taught him culling. ― Jean Genet, quote from Our Lady of the Flowers, “When the name was in the room, it came to pass that the murderer, abashed, opened up, and there sprang forth, like a Glory, from his pitiable fragments, an altar on which there lay, in the roses, a woman of light and flesh.The alter undulated on a foul mud into which it sank: the murderer.” Choose whatever may charm you. Is there a reason why you fall for other girls. Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them. Everyone has many associations with a flower – the idea of flowers. Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! With time, it grows into a large tree. Alberto wore a pair of corduroy trousers, leggings, and a gray shirt, the sleeves of which were rolled up to the elbows. To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. more relevant and important. “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”, “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”, “To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”, “I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”, “My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.”, “I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.”, “If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. At dawn it is forgotten. Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden. )”, “The coldness surprised him. The joy of being a consumer?” she offered. After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. We also accept If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. Each quote represents a book that is In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. But my shoulders are very frail. . I inhale, I suck in. Refresh and try again. A blow received straightens a man up and makes the body move forward, to return that blow, or a punch-to jump, to get a hard-on, to dance: to be alive. The flower is the poetry of reproduction. ― Jean Genet, quote from Our Lady of the Flowers, “I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.” At dawn it is forgotten.”, “Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.”, “Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!”, “Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.”, “Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.”, “I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

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