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“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.”
― William Blake, The Complete Poems

“the same chain fastens the prisoner and the soldier who guards him,”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic: An essential, best-loved classic

“How good was life for those that were on the winning side!”
― Joseph Conrad, 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.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation