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Jean Genet Quotes

Jean Genet quotes

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

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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored..."
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. 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
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. Jean Genet
Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. Jean Genet
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. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows..."
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows..."
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "He already had one foot in the winter of heaven. He was going..."
He already had one foot in the winter of heaven. He was going to be whisked up. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove,..."
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "[Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live...."
[Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "It's a true image, born of a false spectacle."
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. Jean Genet
Jean Genet quote: "My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's..."
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. Jean Genet

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