I’m homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It’s a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
JEAN GENETWhat I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.
More Jean Genet Quotes
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I don’t want to disappear.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
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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 and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.
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Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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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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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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 caught.
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One 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.
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
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Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
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They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.
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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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The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
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