Jean Genet Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.

  Jean Genet

  Would Be, Balls, World

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• 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.

  Jean Genet

  Air, Evil, Criminals

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

• Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Should Have, Wild Imagination

  Jean Genet (1987). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.176, Grove Press

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