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We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for caring what happens to other people, least of al..
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I've known this a long time, because when Napoleon III created the bagnes and was asked: "But who will guard these bandits?" he answered: "Worse bandits."
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Henri Charrière |
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I must prove that I can be, that I am and will be, a normal person. Perhaps no better, but certainly no worse than the rest.
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Henri Charrière |
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We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for caring what happens to other people, least of all crim..
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It was worth having made this break for the people, the human beings it had brought me into contact with. Although it had failed, my escape had been a victory, merely by having enriched my heart with the friendship of these wonderful people. No, I was not sorry. I had done it.
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Henri Charrière |
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This was 1941 and I'd been in prison eleven years. I was thirty-five. I'd spent the best years of my life either in a cell or in a black-hole. I'd only had seven months of total freedom with my Indian tribe. The children my Indian wives must have had by me would be eight years old now. How terrible! How quickly the time had flashed by! But a backward glance showed all these hours and minutes studding my calvary as terribly long, and each on..
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Henri Charrière |
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The important thing was that we were alive...
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Henri Charrière |
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Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad, interested or indifferent.
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Henri Charrière |
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Sleep in peace, you members of the jury who condemned me to this place; sleep in peace,
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Henri Charrière |
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What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, esposas; man, hombre; woman, mujer.
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Henri Charrière |
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You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave?
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Henri Charrière |
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He even whispered in my ear: "You suffer; you will suffer more. But this time I am on your side. You will be free. You will, I promise you."
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Henri Charrière |
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Mahkumluk seruvenimn son gecesinn siniriyle hamagimda donup duruyorm. Yerimden kalkiyor,son aylarda cok iyi baktigm bahcemde geziniyorum.Ay isigi ortaligi gun gibi aydinlatiyor. Nehrin suyu, gurultu etmeden denize dogru akiyor. Kus sesi duyulmuyor, hepsi uykuda. Gokyuzu yildizlarla kapli, ama ay oylesine parlak ki yildizlari gorebilmek icin ona sirt cevirmek gerek. Tam karsimda sik orman, tek aciklik..El Dorado koyunun yapildigi yer. Dogani..
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Henri Charrière |
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evet, su sira yalnizliga katlanabilmek, eskisinden de guc. . Oyle bir haldeyim ki, dusuncelerimle gecmiste ve gunumuzde gezinmek icin gozlerimi kapamam bile gerekmiyor.
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Henri Charrière |
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Edna peperuda vletia -- bledosinia s t'nka cherna lenta, a niak'de blizo do neia zad prozoretsa zazhuzha pchela. Kakvo li pravekha tezi zhivinki tuk? Dali gi beshe ob'rkalo zimnoto sl'ntse, ili t'rsekha da se skriiat v zatvora ot stud? Peperudata zime e sluchaino v'zkr'snalo s'shchestvo. Kak li se e spasila ot sm'rtta? A pchelichkata zashcho li e napusnala koshera si? Kakva neos'znata khrabrost -- da doidat tuk! Dobre che otgovornik't niama..
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Henri Charrière |
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I've known this a long time, because when Napoleon III created the bagnes and was asked: "But who will guard these bandits?" he answered: "Worse bandits." Later on, I was able to confirm the fact that the founding father of the bagnes had not been lying." --
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Henri Charrière |
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pergunto a mim proprio ate que ponto o silencio absoluto e o completo isolamento infligidos a um jovem encerrado numa cela podem, antes de o levarem a loucura, dar azo a uma verdadeira vida imaginativa. Vida de tal modo intensa , de tal modo viva, que o individuo se desdobra literalmente. Levanta voo e vai vagabundear por onde lhe apetece. (...), os castelos no ar que o seu fecundo espirito inventa, que ele cria com uma imaginacao tao ..
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Henri Charrière |
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My name is Jean sans Peur. I was handsomer, healthier and stronger than you when I first came to the bagne. Look at what ten years have done to me.
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Henri Charrière |
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I am not a good enough writer to convey the intense emotion I felt over my newfound self-respect. It was a rehabilitation, if not a new life. This imaginary baptism, the immersion in purity, the elevation of my being above the filth in which I'd been mired and, overnight, this sense of responsibility, made me into a different man. The convict's complexes that make him hear his chains and suspect he's being watched even after he's freed, eve..
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