Quote by Jean Genet
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fr

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

Other quotes by Jean Genet

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, doesnt see Negroes hanging from its branches. – Jean Genet

Category:
Racism
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent — or they themselves — was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. – Jean Genet

Category:
Delinquency
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadnt had an audience, and lines to speak? – Jean Genet

Category:
Suicide
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Other Quotes from
Prison
category

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesnt know where to die. – Antonio Gramsci

Category:
Prison

It isnt true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. – Mario Vargas Llosa

Category:
Prison

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

Category:
Prison

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

Category:
Prison

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Actors are one family over the entire world. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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The man who has done his best has done everything. – Charles M. Schwab

In the Lords Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Woodrow Wilson

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God