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Quote by Jean Genet
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. T

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

Other quotes by Jean Genet

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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Dreams
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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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Time
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadnt had an audience, and lines to speak? – Jean Genet

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Suicide
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So Im OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. – Sidney Poitier

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History

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history. – David Suzuki

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History

History is a pageant and not a philosophy. – Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History

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History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. – Hippolyte Taine

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Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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Isnt it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? – Douglas Adams

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Theres not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team. – Bryan Adams

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I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We cant help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that its taught writers. – David Mitchell

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