7 quotes
For those who want 'to change life", 'to reinvent love,' God is nothing but a hindrance.
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
For man holds his ground only by surpassing himself, in the same sense in which it is said that one ceases to love if one does not love increasingly everyday.
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.
Nausea (1938)