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Jean Genet

The Thief's Journal

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  • Liamцитирует3 года назад
    “When the whores aren't around, the cops are” is an underworld proverb.
  • Liamцитирует3 года назад
    Though I had not managed to commit the crime, I had at least been gently bathed in the fringe of its dawning.
  • Jenniforцитирует3 года назад
    If I am accused of using such theatrical props as fun fairs, prisons, flowers, sacrilegious pickings, stations, frontiers, opium, sailors, harbors, urinals, funerals, cheap hotel rooms, of creating mediocre melodramas and confusing poetry with cheap local color, what can I answer? I have said that I love outlaws who have no other beauty than that of their bodies.
  • Jenniforцитирует3 года назад
    (he once assured me that he had protected his ass with his spread fingers. “The old guy thought he was screwing me, but it was only my hand. I made believe I was sleeping. He shot into my fingers.”)
  • Jenniforцитирует3 года назад
    His speech was clipped. He was afraid that if he lengthened the syllables his whole soul might droop
  • Jenniforцитирует3 года назад
    I refuse to live for any other end than the very one which I found to contain the first misfortune: that my life must be a legend, in other words, legible, and the reading of it must give birth to a certain new emotion which I call poetry. I am no longer anything, only a pretext.
  • Jenniforцитирует3 года назад
    I am escaping from the reformatory, taking tiny steps, frightened not at the idea of being caught but of being the prey of freedom;
  • Jenniforцитирует3 года назад
    “When I walk along the street,” I wondered, “am I being envied by the loveliest and wealthiest of señoritas? What roguish prince, what infanta in rags, can walk about and have so handsome a lover?”
  • Jenniforцитирует3 года назад
    “If something happens,” I said to myself, “it will be the appearance of a unicorn. Such a moment and such a place can only produce a unicorn.”
  • Jenniforцитирует3 года назад
    I call regard all flowers without pity; they are members of my family.
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