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.
doing-nothing intimacy fuse
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
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.