Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.
"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."
I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.
We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.
It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.
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