“And Phoebus fired my vocal rage; He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden cage. He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing And mocks my loss of liberty.”
― The Complete Poems
― The Complete Poems
“the same chain fastens the prisoner and the soldier who guards him,”
― Letters from a Stoic: An essential, best-loved classic
― Letters from a Stoic: An essential, best-loved classic
“How good was life for those that were on the winning side!”
― Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels
― Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels
“Cell 43 was on the other side of a wall of the interrogator’s office, and at night, while the condemned men were waiting to be executed, their ears were tormented by the screams of prisoners being tortured.”
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
“the wise man is sufficient unto himself for a happy existence,”
― Letters from a Stoic: An essential, best-loved classic
― Letters from a Stoic: An essential, best-loved classic
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