Quotes by Genet, Jean

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to o >>

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end o >>

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovere >>

Quotations about Exile

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not wha >>

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first u >>

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would >>

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

Genet, Jean