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If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!

— Jean Genet The Thief's Journal (1949)

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With homosexuality added, it would be sparkling, unassimilable.

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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.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

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This violence is a calm that disturbs you.

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The Day the Palestinians become institutionalized, I will no longer be on their side.

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