Quotes by Genet, Jean

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. >>

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. >>

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The s >>

Quotations about Prison

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow >>

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a >>

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, thoug >>

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

Genet, Jean