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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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"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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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

About Jean Genet

Jean Genet was a Dramatist from France (1910–1986).

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This quote is attributed to Jean Genet, a Dramatist from France.
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Jean Genet lived from 1910 – 1986.