It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. Jean Genet More Quotes by Jean Genet More Quotes From Jean Genet Betrayal is beautiful. Jean Genet betrayalbeautiful ...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. Jean Genet monstrosityornamentscertain Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel. Jean Genet shapesgivingworld The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination. Jean Genet denialpoliticalimagination I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. Jean Genet traitorruthlessthieves One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house. Jean Genet streetshousemean The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen. Jean Genet spylensesmen We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. Jean Genet gamesadventurecheating
