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"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."
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"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."
Support
"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
Forgiveness
"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
Innocence
"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape."
Past
"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
Nothing
"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."
Imprisonment
"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."
Life
"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."
Life
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
Circumstance
"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."
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"Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel free?"
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Personal Development
"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."
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Personal Development
"Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God."
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