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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. — Jean Genet

He already had one foot in the winter of heaven. He was going to be whisked up. — Jean Genet

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. — Jean Genet

The pimp has a grin, never a smile. — Jean Genet

Faggots are the great immoralists. — Jean Genet

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. — Jean Genet

By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me. — Jean Genet

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. — Jean Genet

The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable. — Jean Genet

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. — Jean Genet

Divine was metamorphosed into one of those monsters that are painted on walls, for a customer murmured a magic word: 'homoseckshual — Jean Genet

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. — Jean Genet

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. — Jean Genet

But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling. — Jean Genet

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all. — Jean Genet

The door made the usual, terrifying sound of a door. — Jean Genet

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning. — Jean Genet

My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman. — Jean Genet

On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body. — Jean Genet

Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it might see? — Jean Genet

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. — Jean Genet

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? — Jean Genet

Violence is a calm that disturbs you. — Jean Genet

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. — Jean Genet

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. — Jean Genet

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught. — Jean Genet

They spent their time doing nothing ... they let intimacy fuse them. — Jean Genet

Hell has degrees, so does love — Jean Genet

There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny. — Jean Genet

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. — Jean Genet

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. — Jean Genet

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone. — Jean Genet

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. — Jean Genet

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. — Jean Genet

Betrayal is beautiful. — Jean Genet

I don't want to disappear. — Jean Genet

Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. — Jean Genet

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad. — Jean Genet

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me. — Jean Genet

Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears! — Jean Genet

For I do not love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always handsome and sometimes oppressed but stand up and rebel — Jean Genet

[Y]ou're in a fog. When you circle round, you watch us live. You watch us struggle and you're envious. — Jean Genet

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house. — Jean Genet

He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair. — Jean Genet

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. — Jean Genet

I decided to be what crime made of me, — Jean Genet

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. — Jean Genet

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. — Jean Genet

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice. — Jean Genet

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is. — Jean Genet

Divine departed as she would have desired, in a mixture of fantasy and sordidness. — Jean Genet

Even there, intimacy evolved its alchemy. A solemn marble stairway led to corridors covered with red carpets, upon which one moved noiselessly. — Jean Genet

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her. — Jean Genet

I'm homosexual ... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. — Jean Genet

Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun. — Jean Genet