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Jean Genet Quotes

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French Playwright, Writer December 19, 1910 – April 15, 1986

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The rims of his eyelids were burning. 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. But a blow received may also cause you to bend over, to shake, to fall down, to die. When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death. Detectives, poets, domestic servants... Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur,..."
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet
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. Jean Genet
The severe and at times almost condemning glance - a glance that seems to pass judgment - with which the homosexual appraises every good-looking young man he may encounter, is in reality a quick but intense meditation on his own loneliness Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real..."
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Jean Genet
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil..."
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. Jean Genet
Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product of misfortune, something to which laws could not be applied. I had exceeded the bounds of indecency. Jean Genet
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. Jean Genet

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