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.
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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I don’t want to disappear.
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it’s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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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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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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It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.
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I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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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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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
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Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
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By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
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