Charles Smith’s Reviews > Notes from a Dead House > Status Update

"the prisoner himself knows that he is a prisoner, an outcast, and he knows his place before his superior; but no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a human being"

"and what will one not give for freedom? what millionaire, his throat squeezed by a noose, would not give all his millions for one breath of air?"

"man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, i think, is the best definition of him"