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Genet Jean

1910 - 1986 (76)

Genet Jean
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8 quotes
Quote 1

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

Quote 2

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

Quote 3

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

Quote 4

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

Quote 5

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

Quote 6

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.

Quote 7

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

Quote 8

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