Quotes from bookSaint Genet
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr is a book by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre about the writer Jean Genet, especially on his The Thief's Journal. It was first published in 1952. Sartre described it as an attempt "to prove that genius is not a gift but the way out that one invents in desperate cases." Sartre also based his character Goetz in his play The Devil and the Good Lord on his analysis of Genet's psychology and morality. Sartre has been credited by David M. Halperin with providing, "a brilliant, subtle, and thoroughgoing study of the unique subjectivity and gender positioning of gay men".
“In doing Good, I lose myself in Being, I abandon my particularity, I become a universal subject.”
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“Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover.”
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Original: (90).
“It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission”
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Original: (61).
“in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.”
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(463).
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“The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes”
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“For those who want ‘to change life”, ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.”
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“such mad confidence within despair.”
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Original: (60).
“The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us”
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(280).
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“…inversion…is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.”
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