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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
I am not a good enough writer to convey the intense emotion I felt over my newfound self-respect. It was a rehabilitation, if not a new life. This imaginary baptism, the immersion in purity, the elevation of my being above the filth in which I'd been mired and, overnight, this sense of responsibility, made me into a different man. The convict's complexes that make him hear his chains and suspect he's being watched even after he's freed, everything I'd seen, gone through, suffered, everything that was making me tarnished, rotten and dangerous, passively obedient on the surface but terribly dangerous in rebellion, all that had disappeared as if by a miracle.
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
My name is Jean sans Peur. I was handsomer, healthier and stronger than you when I first came to the bagne. Look at what ten years have done to me.
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
...pergunto a mim próprio até que ponto o silêncio absoluto e o completo isolamento infligidos a um jovem encerrado numa cela podem, antes de o levarem à loucura, dar azo a uma verdadeira vida imaginativa. Vida de tal modo intensa , de tal modo viva, que o indivíduo se desdobra literalmente. Levanta voo e vai vagabundear por onde lhe apetece. {...}, os castelos no ar que o seu fecundo espírito inventa, que ele cria com uma imaginação tão incrivelmente fértil que, {...}, chega a pensar que está a viver tudo quanto vai sonhando.
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
I've known this a long time, because when Napoleon III created the bagnes and was asked: "But who will guard these bandits?" he answered: "Worse bandits." Later on, I was able to confirm the fact that the founding father of the bagnes had not been lying."
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
Една пеперуда влетя - бледосиня с тънка черна лента, а някъде близо до нея зад прозореца зажужа пчела. Какво ли правеха тези живинки тук? Дали ги беше объркало зимното слънце, или търсеха да се скрият в затвора от студ? Пеперудата зиме е случайно възкръснало същество. Как ли се е спасила от смъртта? А пчеличката защо ли е напуснала кошера си? Каква неосъзната храброст - да дойдат тук! Добре че отговорникът няма криле, защото иначе няма за дълго да ги остави живички.
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
Mahkümluk serüvenimn son gecesinn siniriyle hamağımda dönüp duruyorm. Yerimden kalkıyor,son aylarda çok iyi baktığm bahçemde geziniyorum.Ay ışığı ortalığı gün gibi aydınlatıyor. Nehrin suyu, gürültü etmeden denize doğru akıyor. Kuş sesi duyulmuyor, hepsi uykuda. Gökyüzü yıldızlarla kaplı, ama ay öylesine parlak ki yıldızları görebilmek için ona sırt çevirmek gerek. Tam karşımda sık orman, tek açıklık..El Dorado köyünün yapıldığı yer. Doğanın bu derin sessizliği beni dinlendiriyor. İçimdeki telaş yavaş yavaş diniyor, bu anın durgunluğu…ihtiyaç duyduğum huzuru sağlıyor bana
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
evet, şu sıra yalnızlığa katlanabilmek, eskisinden de güç. . Öyle bir haldeyim ki, düşüncelerimle geçmişte ve günümüzde gezinmek için gözlerimi kapamam bile gerekmiyor.
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
He even whispered in my ear: "You suffer; you will suffer more. But this time I am on your side. You will be free. You will, I promise you.
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave?
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
What should we do? I was beginning to understand a few words of Spanish: to escape, fugar; prisoner, preso; to kill, matar; chain, cadena; handcuffs, esposas; man, hombre; woman, mujer.
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
Sleep in peace, you members of the jury who condemned me to this place; sleep in peace,
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Henri Charrière _ Papillon
Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad, interested or indifferent.
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