I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Jean Genet
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  1. To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

  2. A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

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will be. I want it to have not a graceful curve slightly bent toward evening but a hitherto unseen beauty 
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