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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.
- Jean Genet
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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.
- Jean Genet
#Air
#Live
#Universe
#Virtues
#World
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
- Jean Genet
#Calm
#Violence
#You
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
- Jean Genet
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#Danger
#Lying
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#Violence
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
- Jean Genet
#Fact
#Knows
#Singularity
#Strange
#Who
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
- Jean Genet
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#Black
#Country
#Man
#Tree
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.
- Jean Genet
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#Image
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#Shadow
#Sometimes
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
- Jean Genet
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#Green
#Know
#Questions
#Why
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
- Jean Genet
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#He
#Lines
#Speak
#Suicide
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.
- Jean Genet
#Gentle
#Ghetto
#Great
#People
#Wind
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
- Jean Genet
#Interpretation
#Man
#Revolution
#Some
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
- Jean Genet
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#Never
#Worse
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#Youth
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
- Jean Genet
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#Hatred
#Ideas
#Need
#Our
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
- Jean Genet
#Achieve
#Bad
#Elegance
#Harmony
#Taste
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
- Jean Genet
#History
#Man
#People
#Real
#True
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
- Jean Genet
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#Cunning
#Deep
#Thieves
#Traitors
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
- Jean Genet
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#Long Time
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#Man
#Time
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
- Jean Genet
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#Betrayal
#Ecstasy
#Nothing
#Who
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