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Quote by Henry Miller
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller

Other quotes by Henry Miller

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. – Henry Miller

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Psychiatry
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Henry Miller
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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. – Henry Miller

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Fear
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Prison
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. – Horace Mann

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Prison

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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Prison

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. – George Bernard Shaw

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Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. – Robert B. Laughlin

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