French - Dramatist | December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Jean Genet
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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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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