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Quote by Jean Genet
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fr

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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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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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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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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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde

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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller

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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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We have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that. – Bernard Malamud, The Natural

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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. – Samuel Butler

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I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing. – Mark Wahlberg

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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. – Jean de la Fontaine

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