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Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

Jean Genet
Profound, Solitude, Secret
Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude

Jean Genet
Men, Solitude, Different
Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Jean Genet
Artist, Solitude, Moral

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