Jean Genet Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous Jean Genet quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a French dramatist who passed away on 15 April, 1986.
“A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.”
“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.”
“Violence is a calm that disturbs you.”
“I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.”
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.”
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
“Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?”
“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”
“Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.”
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