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There are prisons made of iron, and there are prisons made of sentences. “I cannot.” “It is too late.” “They will not allow it.” “What difference wo… - Kpaxs
" "There are prisons made of iron, and there are prisons made of sentences.
“I cannot.”
“It is too late.”
“They will not allow it.”
“What difference would it make?”
The first confines the body, the second persuades the soul to become its own jailer.
Beware the second prison.
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Pseudonymous reader and writer based in Paris. Posts as @Kpaxs on X and publishes the Three Times Wiser Substack. Real name not publicly disclosed.
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