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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

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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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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Success
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Jean Genet
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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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Other Quotes from
History
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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History

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

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History

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. – David Attenborough

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History

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There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. Thats faith for you. Theres such a strong spirit here. – Daniel Libeskind

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Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. Thats what I was committed to doing. – Chris Christie

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Government

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. – Carl Sandburg

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This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You dont want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. – Ernest Hemingway

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