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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

“I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.”

Ifs Firsts May Fall Voice Imagine Blood Please Kissing Sight Embrace Falling In Love Depth Dialogue Charm Love At First Sight Slang Brotherly Improbability

Book:Our Lady of the Flowers

Source: Our Lady of the Flowers

“Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.”

May Ends Sometimes Liberty Power Gun Shadow Civil Rights

Book:The selected writings of Jean Genet

Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet

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

Men May Evil Virtue Doomed Handsome Manly Posse Handsome Men

Author:Jean Genet

“In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky”

Want May Moments Courses Dark Pleasure Sky Cells Traps Autobiography Pits Trifles Tracing

Book:Our Lady of the Flowers

Source: Our Lady of the Flowers

“Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.”

Men Should May Values Universe Imagination Should Have Ease Faculty Poetic Sovereign Great Poet Wild Imagination

Book:Our Lady of the Flowers

Source: Our Lady of the Flowers

About the Author

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

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