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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

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

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Prison
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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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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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Other Quotes from
History
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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History

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. – George Macaulay Trevelyan, Clio, A Muse

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History

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. – Condoleezza Rice

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History

I dont have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history Im not that kind of person. – Ang Lee

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History

Random Quotes

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. – Denis Waitley

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Promises

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but thats always going to change, and love is never going to change. – Enrique Iglesias

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Politics

If youre living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important. – Ray Bradbury

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Time

Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. – Ambrose Bierce

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Politics