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Jean Genet

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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.


— Jean Genet


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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.


— Jean Genet


#end #gun #image #may #power

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


#extent #fame #heroes #little #owes

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


— Jean Genet


#ideology #interpretation #liberation #main #man

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


— Jean Genet


#bad #bad taste #elegance #harmony #height

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


— Jean Genet


#hatred #ideas #need #our

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


— Jean Genet


#green #homosexual #how #i #idle

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.


— Jean Genet


#anyone #betrayal #ecstasy #experienced #hasn

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


— Jean Genet


#dreamed #dreams #never #realizing #than

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.


— Jean Genet


#air #breathe #criminals #forbidden #hopelessly






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Interview with Tahar Ben Jelloun Le Monde November 1979
1980s
Interview with Antoine Bourseiller (1981) and with Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (1982) distributed as a videocassetts in the series Témoin. While he received excellent grades in school his childhood involved a series of attempts at running away and incidents of petty theft (although White also suggests that Genet's later claims of a dismal impoveriJean Genetd childhood were exaggerated to fit his outlaw image). He worked with Foucault and Sartre to protest police brutality against Algerians in Paris a problem persisting since the Algerian War of Independence when beaten bodies were to be found floating in the Seine.

Jean Genet (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; (1910-12-19)December 19 1910 – April 15 1986(1986-04-15)) was a prominent and controversial French novelist playwright poet essayist and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal but later took to writing.

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