“For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.”

— Jean Paul Sartre , book Saint Genet

(278).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

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French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980

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