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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibil

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. – Jean Genet

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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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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – 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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