Quotes by Genet, Jean

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware >>

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white Ameri >>

When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they ar >>

Quotations about Trials

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but thi >>

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger tha >>

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who cha >>

When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

Genet, Jean