Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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.
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