Quote by Jean Genet
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests an

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

Other quotes by Jean Genet

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesnt see Negroes hanging from its branches. – Jean Genet

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Racism
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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

Category:
Prison
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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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Other Quotes from
Success
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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. – Jim Rohn

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Success

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. – Calvin Coolidge

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Success

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. – Carl Lewis

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Success

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life. – Paul McCartney

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Success

Random Quotes

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. – Jean Anouilh

Category:
Fear

Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology. – V. N. Volosinov

Category:
Ideology

One is not born a woman, one becomes one. – Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

Category:
Women

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. – Dennis Gabor

Category:
Poetry