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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

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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Jean Genet
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent — or they themselves — was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. – Jean Genet

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Delinquency
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Jean Genet
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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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Beauty
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Other Quotes from
History
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To people who remember JFKs assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his fathers coffin. – Michael Beschloss

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History

Whether a womans running for office or shes supporting her husband whos running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, theres just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. – Hillary Clinton

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History

History is a vision of Gods creation on the move. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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History

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. – Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great

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History

Random Quotes

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didnt learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didnt learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didnt die; so, let us all be thankful. – Buddha

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Gratitude

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. – Tennessee Williams

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Death

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Money

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. – Alexander Pope

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God