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Jean Genet Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: France
  • Born: Dec 19, 1910
  • Died: Apr 15, 1986

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens.

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

beauty

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

success

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

time

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

dreams

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

history