21 Quotations by Jean Genet
- 1. A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliat ...
- 2. A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
- 3. Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
- 4. Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
- 5. Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in ...
- 6. I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
- 7. I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sun ...
- 8. I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are ...
- 9. Mine is the poverty of angels. I just don't give a damn about possessions and the like... What need ...
- 10. Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges ...
- 11. 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 ...
- 12. Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
- 13. The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut ...
- 14. The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but ...
- 15. The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application o ...
- 16. There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former ...
- 17. Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
- 18. We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be ...
- 19. What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so ...
- 20. When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra ...
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