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Quote by Jean Genet
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless an

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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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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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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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

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I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full nights sleep. – Angela Kinsey

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Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant. – Florenz Ziegfeld

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I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasnt something I spent a lot of time on. – Nina Dobrev

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. – Plato

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I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. – Stanislav Grof

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