Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? -Jean Genet

 

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?


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This quote is just one of 9 total Jean Genet quotes in our collection. Jean Genet is known for saying 'Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?' as well as some of the following quotes.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

Jean Genet