The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
(The House of the Dead, 1862)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
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