Jean Genet quotes - page 2

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me. (Jean Genet)
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. View quote
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They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her. View quote
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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. View quote
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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. View quote
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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. View quote
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I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. View quote
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When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing. View quote
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. (Jean Genet)
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. View quote
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. View quote
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. View quote
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. View quote
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. View quote
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? View quote
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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 gun. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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