Jean Genet - Man Quotes

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

Jean Genet

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

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

Jean Genet

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Jean Genet

Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude

Jean Genet