"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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"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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"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
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"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."
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"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
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