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

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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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

Category:
Racism
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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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Success
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Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take. – Christopher Reeve

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Success

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how youre going to be when youre there. – Wiz Khalifa

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Success

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. – B.C. Forbes

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Success

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. – Epictetus

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Success

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Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. – French Proverb

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Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Theres something dangerous about whats funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary. – Christopher Walken

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