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"12 Jean Genet Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 19 December 1910. Died: 15 April 1986 | Novelist | Playwright | Poet | Essayist | Activist |

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all

Anyone Experienced Ecstasy Betrayal
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We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning

We Ink Page Meaning
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What Need Hatred Ideas
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To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Write Resort Betrayed Someone
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beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Beauty Ugliness Developing Purest
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Worse Dreams Youth Young
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Achieve Harmony Height Elegance
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Man Dream Order Darkness
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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.

Power End Shadow Image
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Object Revolution Liberation Ideology
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Crimes People History Man
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The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Time Reasoning Past Fight
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Jean Genet Quotes & Sayings