Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I wa… - Jean Genet

" "
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.

Jean Genet

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Jean Genet

Jean Genet (19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist.

All quotes from Jean Genet Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Jean Genet:

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Charlotte Brontë Anaïs Nin Vladimir Nabokov Anthony Burgess

Additional quotes by Jean Genet

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.

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

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

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. - Jean Genet

About Jean Genet

Unlimited Quote Collections

Additional quotes by Jean Genet

Advanced Search Filters