One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.[On est encore ce qu’on va cesser d’être et déjà ce qu’on va devenir; on vit sa mort, on meurt sa vie.]
Source:Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), (George Braziller, ed. 1963), Book I. The Metamorphosis, Page 2