“But when they have realized that it [society] rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors”

—  Jean Paul Sartre , book Saint Genet

(65-6).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

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