“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.” — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
“The tears in my pus-filled eyes became a thousand little crystals of ever color. Like stained-glass windows, I thought. God is with you today,… — Henri Charriere Copy Share Image
“I must prove that I can be, that I am and will be, a normal person. Perhaps no better, but certainly no worse than… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
“We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
“Sleep in peace, you members of the jury who condemned me to this place; sleep in peace,” — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
“He agreed that I should buy another dictionary or, better yet, a phrase book with standard Spanish expressions. He also suggested that it would… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
“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… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
“It was worth having made this break for the people, the human beings it had brought me into contact with. Although it had failed,… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
“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:… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
“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… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
