This violence is a calm that disturbs you. - Jean Genet

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This violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Jean Genet

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Jean Genet (19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist.

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