Betrayal is beautiful.
Jean Genet
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JEAN PAUL RICHTER points out that, for Genet, blasphemy is a sign of respect.
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JEAN GENET Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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PIERRE CARDIN Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell...
JEFF GILES All A-students passed,
Jean Marie is an A-student,
Therefore, Jean Marie passed.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Life may not be party you hoped for,But that doesnt mean u should stop dancing!Remember you are the ...
ANMOL P. JAORA Growth is betrayal.
JOHN UPDIKE Friendship's enemy is betrayal.
TOBA BETA Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER Madame Jean is not a sovereigntist,
JEAN LAPIERRE Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very discipline...
ERIKA SLEZAK God created all things. It's men who decide which ones are mistakes.
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could ...
MALCOLM X There were many forms of betrayal. Betrayal of friends. Comrades. Even life.
HOLLOW RYAN Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLER Life is beautiful but people are crazy.
CHARLES OSGOOD Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
BRIT MARLING Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.
SERENA WILLIAMS Betrayal. That’s the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous. For there to be betrayal, there would...
SUZANNE COLLINS Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.
TOBA BETA There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. There comes a time when silence is betrayal
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. What this case is about is a betrayal of trust.
GRAHAM THORPE Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.
LINDA TALLEY They are very disappointing. They are very disturbing, and it's evidence of a real betrayal -- a bet...
KIRK WATSON Mrs. Jean was not participating in a private event. Mrs. Jean was participating in a public event, t...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR Love is a beautiful feeling.
KABIR BEDI One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it h...
STEVEN DEITZ When I met Genet I could not conceive of him as the author of his plays. He looks like a terrified b...
JAN KOTT Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
JEAN RENOIR It was a gigantic betrayal. She is indeed a traitor.
DIANE RAGSDALE Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could m...
GEORGE ORWELL There's certainly blasphemy in the play. Genet plays with the notion of blasphemy a lot; that's one ...
JOSEPH MCGRATH The gospel according to Jean Jacques.
THOMAS CARLYLE betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.
BILL COSBY an act of utter betrayal.
GROVER NORQUIST Genet was an actor in the play of his life, putting on masks, rearranging facts to suit his purpose ...
MEL GUSSOW This is completely a betrayal of the people who elected this government.
LUDEKI CHWEYA The Slaying of Jean Charles de Menezes
RICHARD SEYMOUR I never tolerate disrespect or betrayal
S.R. CRAWFORD Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
HOBAN "WASH" WASHBURNE We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a...
HILARIE BURTON Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
THOM GUNN daily Mass, weekly confession and nightly betrayal.
DAVID VISE What had seemed like love was betrayal
CLAUDIA GRAY See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love.
JOHN LECARRE Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
JOHN LE CARRE Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
JOHN LECARRE Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!
T.F. HODGE This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.
DADA BHAGWAN All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betray...
MARTIN LUTHER Et tu, Brute!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader
DOUGLAS JERROLD [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
CHARLES DE GAULLE O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll ...
MILAN KUNDERA I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my frie...
E. M. FORSTER Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, ...
ANAïS NIN The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain o...
HEATHER BREWER On the eve of my death, I will have supper with the Devil.
MNQOBI KHAYELIHLE MWANDLA a stunning betrayal of their shields, their colleagues and the citizens they were sworn to protect.
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