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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men. - Jean Genet Quotes

When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. - Jean Genet Quotes

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

French Dramatist Ideology

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination. - Jean Genet Quotes

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

Force

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. - Jean Genet Quotes

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.

French Dramatist Power

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. - Jean Genet Quotes

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

French Dramatist

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. - Jean Genet Quotes

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

French Dramatist

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. - Jean Genet Quotes

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. - Jean Genet Quotes

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

Eyes French Dramatist

Violence is a calm that disturbs you. - Jean Genet Quotes

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

French Dramatist Violence

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty. - Jean Genet Quotes

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty.

Beauty French Dramatist

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? - Jean Genet Quotes

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

French Dramatist Suicide

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. - Jean Genet Quotes

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Boldness French Dramatist

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. - Jean Genet Quotes

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.

French Dramatist Universe

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. - Jean Genet Quotes

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.

French Dramatist

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. - Jean Genet Quotes

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.

Music

What 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. - Jean Genet Quotes

What 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.

French Dramatist Hatred

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. - Jean Genet Quotes

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. - Jean Genet Quotes

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

French Dramatist History

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. - Jean Genet Quotes

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Fame French Dramatist

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. - Jean Genet Quotes

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Elegance French Dramatist

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. - Jean Genet Quotes

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

French Dramatist Hatred

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. - Jean Genet Quotes

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

French Dramatist Youth

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile. - Jean Genet Quotes

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

Exile

The Blacks: A Clown Show - Jean Genet Quotes

The Blacks: A Clown Show

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. - Jean Genet Quotes

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

French Dramatist

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