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Facts about Jean Genet

Occup.Dramatist
FromFrance
BornDecember 19, 1910
DiedApril 15, 1986
Aged75 years

Summary

Jean Genet was a famous Dramatist from France, who lived between December 19, 1910 and April 15, 1986. He/she became 75 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism. Our collection contains 18 quotes who is written / told by Jean.

18 Famous quotes by Jean Genet

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle"
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"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man"
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"I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger"
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"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green"
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"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness"
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"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance"
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"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it"
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"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born"
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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches"
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"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"
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty"
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"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all"
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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology"
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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity"
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"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all"
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"Violence is a calm that disturbs you"
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"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them"
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