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1 " a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force. "
― José Saramago , The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
2 " In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king. "
― Michel Foucault , Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
3 " It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus. "
― Roland Barthes , Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
4 " The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. "
― Simone Weil
5 " There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy. "
