Best Jean Genet Quotes
- Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves,… Authentic
- Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of… Doe
- There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. Close
- Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. All
- Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? Audience
- The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. Application
- Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Ashamed
- To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. Achieve
- I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. Beauty
- Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. All
- A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Act
- 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… Almost Gentle
- She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls,… Bitches
- ...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of… All
- First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags… All
- When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at… Bear
- Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears! Ah
- ...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. Beauty
- 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… Acute
- 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… Bag
- I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me. Idea
- 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… Dawn
- I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice… Accosting
- They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them. Fuse
- Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. Acknowledge