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Henri Charrière
...I wonder to what extent absolute silence and complete isolation inflicted on a young man locked in a cell can, before driving him mad, give rise to a true imaginative life. Life is so intense, so alive, that the individual literally unfolds. Take flight and wander wherever you want. {...}, the castles in the air that his fertile spirit invents, that he creates with an imagination so incredibly fertile that, {...}, he comes to think that he is living everything he is dreaming.
Henri Charrière
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.
Henri Charrière
A butterfly flew in - pale blue with a thin black stripe, and somewhere near it behind the window a bee buzzed. What were these critters doing here? Had the winter sun confused them, or were they seeking to hide in the prison from the cold? The Winter Butterfly is a randomly resurrected creature. How did she escape death? And why did the bee leave her hive? What unconscious bravery - to come here! It's a good thing the guy in charge doesn't have wings, because otherwise he won't be alive for long.
Henri Charrière
I toss and turn in my hammock, nervous about the last night of my imprisonment adventure. I get up and walk around my garden, which I have taken very good care of in recent months. The moonlight illuminates the place like daylight. The water of the river flows towards the sea without noise. No bird sounds can be heard, they are all asleep. The sky is full of stars, but the moon is so bright that you have to turn your back to it to see the stars. Directly in front of me is a dense forest, a single clearing... where the village of El Dorado was built. This deep silence of nature relaxes me. The rush inside me is slowly calming down, the stillness of this moment... provides me with the peace I need.
Henri Charrière
Yes, it is harder to bear loneliness these days than it was before. . I'm in such a state that I don't even have to close my eyes to wander past and present with my thoughts.
Henri Charrière
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.
Henri Charrière
You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave?
Henri Charrière
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.
Henri Charrière
Sleep in peace, you members of the jury who condemned me to this place; sleep in peace
Henri Charrière
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.
Henri Charrière
The important thing was that we were alive...
Henri Charrière
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 one of them hard to bear.
Henri Charrière
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.
Henri Charrière
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 criminals.
Henri Charrière
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.
Henri Charrière
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.
Janet Evanovich
I took the stool next to him, raising an eyebrow at the coffee and cruller on the counter. Thought you weren't into internal pollution, I said. Lately Ranger'd been on a health food thing.Props, Ranger told me. Didn't want to look out of place.I didn't want to burst his fantasy bubble, but the only time Ranger wouldn't look out of place would be standing in a lineup between Rambo and Batman.
Jean Sasson
The heart of evil beats in Afghanistan. When men hold every advantage, neither wealth, nor beauty, nor intelligence, nor education, nor strength, nor family can compete with gender. Women have only prayer and hope as allies.
Jean Sasson
wed. Kareem would find it difficult to outwit
Jean Sasson
that the children of this generation have decayed with the ease of their lives, and that their great fortune has deprived them of any ambitions or real satisfactions.
Jean Sasson
to be valued and esteemed is beyond the expectation
Jean Sasson
lethargic with hopelessness
Jean Sasson
Then I brought up the obvious, that the physical vulnerabilities of a woman can be traced to that most important function of human accomplishments, the absorption of her strength in carrying, nursing and rearing children. I have always known that this one fact doomed females to a subordinate status in all societies. Instead of attaining honour for being producers of life, we are penalized! To my mind, this fact is the scandal of civilization!
Jean Sasson
Infant mortality in Saudi Arabia was among the highest in the world, for there was no money, doctors, or hospitals to treat the sick. Saudi diets consisted of dates, camel milk, and goat and camel meat.
Jean Sasson
when a person wishes to be angry, as Noorah was demonstrating, there is little one can do. Before
Jean Sasson
Saudi Arabia does not belong to the al-Saud family. Saudi Arabia belongs to all its citizens.
Jean Sasson
It is much better to work with nonviolent activists, who take the time to set up appropriate organizations to work with citizens, rather than create violence in the hearts of men by refusing to allow them to participate in decision-making and government. No-Saudi
Jean Sasson
The man who marries a woman for her beauty will be deceived; he who marries a woman for good sense can truly say he is married. - Sultana
Jean Sasson
Millions of people have become refugees and beggars when violent extremists have overthrown governments. Should this happen in Saudi Arabia, the first action taken would be to behead or burn to death every Saudi royal.
Jean Sasson
Then there are unreasonable men who complain that simply knowing a sensual female is in the building is too distracting for them to work productively.
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