Quotes of Jean Genet

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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

- Jean Genet

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“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

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- Gandhi

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- Ronald Reagan

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- Alice Hoffman

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- E. L. Simpson

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“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

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- Friedrich Nietzsche

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- Voltaire

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