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It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.
– Elizabeth Wein

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  2. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. – Lewis B Smedes
  3. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. – Corrie ten Boom
  4. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself. – Diane Moody
  5. If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner…if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner. – Arthur Schopenhauer
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  10. But people need lift, too. People don’t get moving, they don’t soar, they don’t achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up. – Elizabeth Wein
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  26. What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings. – Idries Shah
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  39. Unlike most I don’t fear prison, never have, never will. Obviously I don’t want it, I hate it, but it’s the hate that drives me on to survive. – Stephen Richards
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