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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.

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Source: in The selected writings of Jean Genet, HarperCollins Publishers, 1 October1993, p. 371.
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