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Jean Genet foi um proeminente e controverso escritor, poeta e dramaturgo francês.

✵ 19. Dezembro 1910 – 15. Abril 1986
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The Maids
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The Maids
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Jean Genet Frases famosas

“Temos de rir. Senão a tragédia vai nos fazer voar pela janela.”

Jean Genet The Maids

Les Bonnes

“O que precisamos é de ódio, Dele nascerão as nossas ideias.”

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“O que é que tu tens? Agora já podes parecer contigo. Retoma teu rosto. Vamos, Claire, volta a ser minha irmã…”

Jean Genet The Maids

Les Bonnes

Jean Genet: Frases em inglês

“If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.”

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Jean Genet The Balcony

Fonte: The Balcony

“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

Fonte: The Thief's Journal

“My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.”

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Jean Genet livro Our Lady of the Flowers

Fonte: Our Lady of the Flowers

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

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

The Thief's Journal (1949)

“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.”

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Fonte: Prisoner of Love

“They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.”

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Jean Genet livro Our Lady of the Flowers

Fonte: Our Lady of the Flowers

“Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.”

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

Fonte: The Thief's Journal

“Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.”

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Jean Genet livro Our Lady of the Flowers

Fonte: Our Lady of the Flowers

“Betrayal is beautiful.”

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

Fonte: The Thief's Journal

“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.”

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

Fonte: The Thief's Journal

“When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.”

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Jean Genet

Fonte: Miracle of the Rose

“Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.”

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Jean Genet livro Querelle of Brest

Fonte: Querelle of Brest

“I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.”

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“The pimp has a grin, never a smile.”

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Jean Genet The Balcony

Fonte: The Balcony

“… beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.”

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Fonte: Miracle of the Rose

“It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.”

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Jean Genet The Balcony

Fonte: The Balcony

“It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.”

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Jean Genet The Balcony

Fonte: The Balcony

“The Day the Palestinians become institutionalized, I will no longer be on their side.”

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Edmund White's preface to Prisoner of Love

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

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

The Thief's Journal (1949)

“But--criminals are remote from you--as in love, they turn away and turn me away from the world and its laws. Thiers smells of sweat, sperm, and blood. In short, to my body and my thristy soul it offers devotion. It was because their world contains these erotic conditions that I was bent on evil.”

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

The Thief's Journal (1949)

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

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

The Thief's Journal (1949)

“This violence is a calm that disturbs you.”

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

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.”

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

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.”

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

The Thief's Journal (1949)

“With homosexuality added, it would be sparkling, unassimilable.”

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Jean Genet livro The Thief's Journal

In reference to the French Gestapo
The Thief's Journal (1949)

“So long as we were in a room in a brothel, we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we're now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure according to the laws of visibility.”

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Jean Genet The Balcony

The Balcony (1956)