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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility ...  
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreami...  
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.  
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The s...  
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of dang...  
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and th...  
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like w...  
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovere...  
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end o...  
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to o...  
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and al...  
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the in...  
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragil...  
Violence is a calm that disturbs you.  
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools....  
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white Ameri...  
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they ar...  
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn...