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- “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.” ― Jean Genet.
- “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.” ― Jean Genet.
- “To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.” ― Jean Genet.
- “I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.” ― Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal.
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A collection of quotes and sayings by Jean Genet on prisoner, poems, books, thief’s-journal, maids, love, achieve, elegance, revolution, betrayal, ecstasy and dreams.
- Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. Jean Genet.
- To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. Jean Genet.
- I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. Jean Genet.
- A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet.
Jan 6, 2024 · Jean Genet ( 19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist.
Jean Genet (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; () 19 December 1910 – () 15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright.
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death. Jean Genet. Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. Jean Genet.
