I decided to be what crime made of me.
JEAN GENETI decided to be what crime made of me.
JEAN GENETCrimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENETWould Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
JEAN GENETSolitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
JEAN GENETAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
JEAN GENETWhat we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENETErotic 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.
JEAN GENETThe pimp has a grin, never a smile.
JEAN GENETI could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
JEAN GENETAnyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
JEAN GENETThey spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
JEAN GENETThe vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
JEAN GENETWhen we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
JEAN GENETThough they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
JEAN GENETThe main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
JEAN GENETThe time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
JEAN GENET