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Quotes from The Thief's Journal — Jean Genet

1910–1986 France

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With homosexuality added, it would be sparkling, unassimilable.

The Thief's Journal (1949)

If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!

The Thief's Journal (1949)

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The Thief's Journal (1949)

This violence is a calm that disturbs you.

The Thief's Journal (1949)

I suffered at the time from an ugliness I no longer find on my childhood face.

The Thief's Journal (1949)

Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life.

The Thief's Journal (1949)

But I would adore that thief who is my mother.

The Thief's Journal (1949)

By remaining inaccessible, he became the epitome of those whom I have named and who stagger me. I was therefore chaste.

The Thief's Journal (1949)

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. I wondered at its perfect coherence, which rejected me.

The Thief's Journal (1949)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Genet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.