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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.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its... (more Jean Genet quotes)
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