Jean Genet
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Jean Genet (French: [~ n] ; (1910-12-19 ) 19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986 (1986-04-15 ) ) was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens .
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Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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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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'Power may be at the end of a gun,' but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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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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