Tradition Quotes by Jean Genet

I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

— Jean Genet

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

— Jean Genet

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

— Jean Genet

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

— Jean Genet

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is…

— Jean Genet

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory,…

— Jean Genet

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

— Jean Genet

“They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was not torn…

— Jean Genet

“Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which…

— Jean Genet

I decided to be what crime made of me,

— Jean Genet

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil…

— Jean Genet

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it…

— Jean Genet