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Jean Genet
 
Date of birth: 19 December 1910
Date of death: 15 April 1986
Country Of Origin: France
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" A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. "

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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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" Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. "

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" Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. "

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" Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. "

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

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" I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty. "

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" I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. "

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" Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun. "

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" Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. "

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" The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. "

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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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" There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. "

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" To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. "

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" Violence is a calm that disturbs you. "

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