“I suffered at the time from an ugliness I no longer find on my childhood face.”
Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal (1949)
“I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.”
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