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Letter "P" » prisoner
«We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participation in society. For the prisoner, the chronically ill, the bedridden old and the destitute, we reserve the forced collective life.»
Author: Elaine Cumming
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Keywords:
bedridden,
chronically,
collective,
destitute,
devotion,
fullness,
individualism,
participation,
prisoner,
reserve,
The Prisoner
«Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity»
Author: Father James Keller
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Keywords:
carved,
cell,
condemned,
impatience,
imprisonment,
keep up,
prisoner,
sentiment,
spirits,
The Tower,
The Tower of London,
The Wall,
three hundred,
tower,
Tower of,
Tower of London,
with impatience
«To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.»
«The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
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Poet)
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Keywords:
adventures,
compete,
deliver,
eighteen,
emancipate,
emancipated,
emancipating,
enrich,
family business,
garret,
gluttonous,
heroic,
immortalize,
infamous,
papa,
precocity,
prisoner,
run away,
sublime,
the Son,
tower,
twelve
«The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.»