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Jean Genet
French
Dramatist
About the author
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Fact
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Time
#Man
#Darkness
#Act
#Dream
#Order
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Suicide
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Youth
#Dreams
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Ideas
#Hatred
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,
French
Dramatist
#Wonder
#American
#Country
#Man
#Deep
#Hatred
#Plants
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Violence
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Harmony
#Taste
#Elegance
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Man
#Ideology
#Revolution
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,
French
Dramatist
#Success
#Fame
#Heroes
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,
French
Dramatist
#World
#Universe
#Forbidden
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.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#End
#May
#Power
#Shadow
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Questions
#Eyes
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Deep
#Beauty
#Cunning
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Violence
#Danger
#Name
#Lying
#Boldness
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#People
#Man
#History
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,
French
Dramatist
#People
#Wind
#Shame
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jean Genet,
French
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Betrayal
#Ecstasy