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 GENETWould Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
More Jean Genet Quotes
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
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Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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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.
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If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
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On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
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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.
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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.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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