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This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

— Jack Abbott In the Belly of the Beast (1981)

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Even European philosophers have taken notice that most of what we take for knowledge is nothing but bias and prejudice.

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Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.

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I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

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