Author: Jean Genet

Quotes

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

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

- Jean Genet

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 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.

- Jean Genet

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

- Jean Genet

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

- Jean Genet

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

- Jean Genet

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