A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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Jean Genet
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About Jean Genet
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Jean GenetThe fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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.
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.