Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
JEAN GENETOne can hear all that’s going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what’s going on in this house.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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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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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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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, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
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I decided to be what crime made of me.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
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The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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