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Quote by Jean Genet
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dr

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. – 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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Dreams
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Jean Genet
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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

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Racism
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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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Now is the watchword of the wise. – Proverb

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Time

The first time you say something, its heard. The second time, its recognized, and the third time its learned. – John C. Maxwell

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Time

Why kill time when one can employ it. – Proverb

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Time

Time is an old firmly rooted tree; we are the breeze rustling its leaves. – Terri Guillemets

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The shadows: some hide, others reveal. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. – Mary Wortley

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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. – W. H. Auden

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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. – Vita Sackville-West

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