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

Quote by Jean Genet

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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They...

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They...

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience,...

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience,...

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

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

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American...

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American...

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of...

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of...

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

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

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

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

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

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to...

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to...

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and...

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young...

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young...

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know...

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know...

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of...

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of...

At the end of the day, violence never really solves any problem...it just creates new...

At the end of the day, violence never really solves any problem...it just creates new...

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.