Jean Genet quotes
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, and poet, acclaimed for his provocative works exploring themes of crime, marginalization, and identity. His literature challenged social norms and championed the voices of outcasts. He became an influential figure in both literary and political circles. Here are 45 of his quotes:
But--criminals are remote from you--as in love, they turn away and turn me away from the world and its laws. Thiers smells of sweat, sperm, and blood. In short, to my body and my thristy soul it offers devotion. It was because their world contains these erotic conditions that I was bent on evil.
Jean Genet
Yet, what is their violence compared to mine, which was to accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish it for myself, to intercept it, to utilize it, to force it upon myself, to know it, to premeditate it, to discern and assume its perils? But what was mine, willed and necessary for my defense, my toughness, my rigor, compared to the violence they underwent like a malediction, risen from an inner fire simultaneously with an outer light which sets them ablaze and illuminates us?
Jean Genet
Jean Genet
Occupation: French Novelist
Born: December 19, 1910
Died: April 14, 1986
Quotes count: 45
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