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

~Jean Genet

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

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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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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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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.

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

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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: December 19th, 1910

Died: April 15th, 1986

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