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• Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

  Jean Genet

  Saint, Want, Kind

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• The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Spy, Lenses

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Evil, May

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• I don't want to disappear.

  Jean Genet

  Want, Disappear

  Jean Genet (1994). “The Blacks: A Clown Show”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

  Jean Genet

  Song, Mouths, Body

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• I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

  Jean Genet

  Ideas, People, Made

  Jean Genet (1965). “The thief's journal”

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• She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .

  Jean Genet

  Sweet, Princess, Numbers

  Jean Genet (1994). “Querelle”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

  Jean Genet

  Imagination, Political, Denial

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• Betrayal is beautiful.

  Jean Genet

  Beautiful, Betrayal

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• We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

  Jean Genet

  Cheating, Adventure, Games

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• ...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.

  Jean Genet

  Book, Character, Variation

  Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman (1994). “Funeral Rites”, p.97, Grove Press

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• I decided to be what crime made of me.

  Jean Genet

  Crime, Made, Decided

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• I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

  Jean Genet

  Lying, Names, Giving

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

  Jean Genet

  Facts, Strange, Share

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up.

  Jean Genet

  Rags, Firsts, Mines

  Jean Genet (1994). “The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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

  Ghetto, Wind, People

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.

  Jean Genet

  Body, Adrift, Cocaine

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Justice, Triggers

  Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”

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• One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

  Jean Genet

  Mean, House, Streets

  Jean Genet (1994). “The Balcony”, p.34, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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