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 recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
- Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
- 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.
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