Able Quote by Stendhal Download Open image “The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Crime Doors Life Prison Prison life Worst
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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. — Jalal Ad-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
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The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
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“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
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