"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

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"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

"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

"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."

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"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."

Memory

"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."

Forgiveness

"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

"The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare."

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"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."

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"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."

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