Jean Genet Quotes


A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet Act 151
Violence is a calm that disturbs you. Jean Genet Calm 114
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. Jean Genet HeroesHeroism 102
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. Jean Genet Revolution 87
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. Jean Genet Dream 83
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. Jean Genet Beauty 80
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. Jean Genet Delinquency 78
You must now go home where everything you can be quite sure will be falser than here....You must go now. Youll leave by the right through the alley.... Jean Genet Reality 74
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 Crime 69
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. Jean Genet Boldness 63
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. Jean Genet Prison 61
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. Jean Genet Facts 51
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 Protest 49
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Jean Genet Crime 46
Its a true image born of a false spectacle. Jean Genet Drama 41
Betrayal is beautiful. Jean Genet Betrayal 41
One can hear all thats going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear whats going on in this house. Jean Genet Power 41
Dziki temue powiedzia mii nie yjpogodziem si z fakteme ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myli Jean Genet Death and dying 38
Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist which can acknowledge no authority save that of another artist. Jean Genet Authority 33
The pimp has a grin never a smile. Jean Genet Smile 29

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