Quotes by : Jean Genet

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

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause....

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

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's....

I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what it 
will....

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

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no....

Betrayal is beautiful.

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.