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Jean Genet's Profile

Brief about Jean Genet: By info that we know Jean Genet was born at 1910-12-19. And also Jean Genet is French Dramatist.

Some Jean Genet's quotes. Goto "Jean Genet's quotation" section for more.

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

Tags: Anyone, Betrayal, Knows

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

Tags: Darkness, Dream, Time

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.

Tags: Away, Friendly, Great

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

Tags: Dreams, Young, Youth

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

Tags: Audience, Felt, Speak

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

Tags: Liberation, Object, Revolution

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

Tags: History, Real, True

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

Tags: Give, Name, Violence

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.

Tags: End, May, Power

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

Tags: Fame, Paid, Success

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

Tags: Achieve, Bad, Harmony

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Tags: Calm, Disturbs, Violence

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.

Tags: Agree, Air, Universe

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Tags: Anyone, Fact, Strange

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

Tags: Beauty, Deep, Traitors

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

Tags: Eyes, Questions, Why

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

Tags: Born, Hatred, Ideas

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.

Tags: Black, Country, Deep

My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.

Tags: Lordship, Show, Woman

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

Tags: Control
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