Original: (fr) L’important n’est pas ce qu’on fait de nous mais ce que nous faisons nous-même de ce qu’on a fait de nous.
Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p.55
“What has value in their eyes is never what is done for them; it's what they do for themselves.”
Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 315
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