...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.
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
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
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. - Jean Genet
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Violence is a calm that disturbs you. - Jean Genet
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them. - Jean Genet
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserv… - Jean Genet
Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserv…
The pimp has a grin, never a smile. - Jean Genet
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? - Jean Genet
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. - Jean Genet
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. - Jean Genet
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
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