Jean Genet Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

  Jean Genet

  Flower, Jail, Fragility

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

• Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

  Jean Genet

  Stars, Flower, Order

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

  Jean Genet

  Flower, Fragility, Delicacy

  "A Thief’s Journal". Book by Jean Genet, 1949.

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