“This violence is a calm that disturbs you.”
Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal (1949)
“Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.”
Source: Thoughts in Solitude
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“Our journey is not complete until all our children”
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2013, Second Inaugural Address (January 2013)
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“no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.”
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Source: The Alchemist