Quote by Jean Genet
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fo

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

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He that seeks trouble never misses. – English Proverb

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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways? – William Shakespeare

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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. – Rudyard Kipling

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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They dont know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. – Anthony Burgess

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Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill. – Norm Dicks

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