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If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Jean Genet
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Jean Genet's Popular Quotes

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

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

- Jean Genet

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

- Jean Genet

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

- Jean Genet

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

- 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…

- Jean Genet

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

- Jean Genet

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

- Jean Genet

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

- Jean Genet
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