The prisoner imagines freedom to be more wonderful than it is.

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Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit.

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Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

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Çok az kişinin anlayıp hakkını vereceği bir uğraş için neden bu kadar çabaladığını sorduklarında şu dediklerimi hatırka: 'Birkaç kişi anlasa da bana yeter, bir kişi bile yeter, hatta kimse anlamasa da razıyım.

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Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

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Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.

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El hombre del Mediodía no miente, se equivoca. No dice siempre la verdad, pero cree que la dice… Para él, su mentira no es mentira. Es una especie de espejismo.

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Plus grands sont les amours, plus courte est la mémoire Vous l’avez oublié, nous en sommes tous là ; Le cœur le plus aimant n’est qu’une vaste armoire. On fait deux tours, et puis voilà.

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My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

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