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

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