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“No man lives, or can live, without having some object in view, and without making efforts to attain that object. But when there is no such object and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster.”
― The House of the Dead
― The House of the Dead
“The convict is greedy for money, to the point of madness, and if he throws it away he does so in order to procure what he values far above money - liberty, or at least semblance of liberty.”
― The House of the Dead
― The House of the Dead
“Nevertheless, vanity and conceit are defects from which scarcely any convict is exempt.”
― The House of the Dead
― The House of the Dead
“An incompetent officer can never understand that to apply the law without understanding its spirit is to invite opposition.”
― The House of the Dead
― The House of the Dead
“Why is it that a convict never saves his money? Well, not only is it difficult for him to keep it, but prison life is so miserable that a man, of his very nature, thirsts for freedom of action. His position in society makes him so irregular a being that the idea of swallowing up his capital in orgies, of intoxicating himself with revelry, seems to him quite natural if only he can procure himself one moment's forgetfulness.”
― The House of the Dead
― The House of the Dead
Miguel’s 2025 Year in Books
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