Jean Genet
Quotes by Jean Genet
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
— Jean Genet
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
— 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.
— Jean Genet
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
— 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
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
— Jean Genet