I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. Jean Genet on beauty
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. Jean Genet on dreams
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. Jean Genet on great
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Jean Genet on history
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 on success
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet on time
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. Jean Genet on boldness