Saint Genet Quotes & Sayings

When a man invents an image that he wants to propagate, that he may even want to substitute for himself, he starts by experimenting, making mistakes, sketching out freaks and other non-viable monsters that he has to tear up unless they disintegrate of their own accord. But the operative image is the one that's left after the person dies or withdraws from the world, as in the case of Socrates, Christ, Saladin, Saint-Just and so on. They succeeded in projecting an image around themselves and into the future. It doesn't matter whether or not the image corresponds to what they were really like: they managed to wrest a powerful image from that reality. — Jean Genet

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep. — Michel De Montaigne

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. — Ramana Maharshi

What God gives, no one can take. — Evans Biya

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her. — Jean Genet

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. — Thomas Aquinas

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees, ... one's happiness, one's reality? — Virginia Woolf

First set a strong and clear inner voice and then do all that you want to achieve and the door will be opened. — Amit Ray