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“there but for the grace of God go I.”
― Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
― Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Love May Fail
― Love May Fail
“One of the best ways to make myself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy myself.”
― The Happiness Project
― The Happiness Project
“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Like war refugees, prisoners have lost everything: home, possessions, friends, and often family. For a prisoner, education has a special value as the one thing that no one can take from him.”
― Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
― Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
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