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

~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.

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

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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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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: December 19th, 1910

Died: April 15th, 1986

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