Jean Genet Quotes
It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the caus...
Show MoreWe are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.
Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge ...
Show MoreOne can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's...
Show MoreWorse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at ...
Show MoreThe fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...
Show MoreI want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what it will...
Show MoreYou must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You m...
Show MoreRepudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
Show MoreBetrayal is beautiful.
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through h...
Show MoreBy dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.
To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a s...
Show MoreA man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
