Jean Genet
Jean Genet
Jean Genet19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 December 1910
CountryFrance
dream would-be youth
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
dream men order
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
betrayal betrayed ecstasy
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
doing-nothing intimacy fuse
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
balls world mouths
I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.
cheating adventure games
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
profound solitude secret
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
facts strange share
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
ornaments monstrosity certain
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
pimp
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.