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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"
"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"
"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
"The beauty of truth is in its simplicity."
Explore more quotes by Jean Genet
"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."
"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."
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