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'Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.'

'More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in.'

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'On that bed—with the other one—they had been a feeling man and woman, a watching man and woman; they had been a man who watched himself experiencing and a woman who watched herself experiencing; they had been a man watchung himself and a man watching a woman watching herself...'

'Country people tended to be self-conscious about expressing their feelings in words. And in this sense they were more honest.'