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Jean Genet
Jean Genet
French Dramatist
Born: Dec 19, 1910
Died: Apr 15, 1986
Anyone Beauty Hatred Idle Man People
Related authors: Alexandre Dumas Antonin Artaud Eugene Ionesco Jean Giraudoux Jean Racine Jules Renard Marcel Pagnol Pierre Corneille
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. Jean Genet
Man Ideology Revolution Interpretation Liberation Some Object Main Transcendental Application
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. Jean Genet
Beauty Thieves Recognize Ruthless Cunning Traitors Deep
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? Jean Genet
Speak Suicide Would Delicious Had He Felt Audience Hamlet Lines Fascination
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet
Time Man Darkness Long Long Time Nursed Dream Must Dreaming Order Grandeur Act
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Jean Genet
History Man People Crimes Constitute True Real Same Which Ashamed
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. Jean Genet
Strange Fact Shares Knows Singularity Anyone Who
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
Great People Humiliation Wind Saw Ghetto Carrying Only Shame Had Almost Dropped Invisibility Over Gentle Been Friendly Little Centuries Breeze Swept Away Four

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