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Jean Genet was a French novelist known for his unique style and profound social criticism. His works often delve into the lives of marginalized individuals and their place in the social structure. Genet's life was filled with drama, having been a beggar and prisoner, experiences that deeply influenced his writing.

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Famous Jean Genet Quotes

“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.”

Knows Betrayal Ecstasy Betray Betrayed Betrayed Love Love Betrayal Love And Betrayal

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Book Shows Speak Causes Grief One Thing Reader Clothes Illusion Dust Disguise Pointless Skeletons

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.”

Knows Pleasure Betrayal

Author:Jean Genet

“I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.”

Knows Littles Eye Gay Green Lgbt Idle Homosexual

Author:Jean Genet

“Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.”

Knows Facts Share Strange Strangeness Singularity

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“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.”

Knows Games Adventure Ready Fool Tragedy Fellows Cards Thanks Opponents Cheating Delinquency

Author:Jean Genet

“What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.”

Ifs Knows Men Country Black White Race Wonder Tree Racism Hatred Plant Branches White Man Plant A Tree Bare Branches

Author:Jean Genet

About the Author

Born: December 19, 1910
Died: April 15, 1986
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 88

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