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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 don't want to disappear.”

Book:The Blacks: A Clown Show

Source: The Blacks: A Clown Show

“If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.”

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Book:The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes

Source: The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes

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

Want Kind Saint Surly

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”

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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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