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The enforced cessation from external activity which imprisonment may bring could be a help to spiritual awakening. A few months before he died Oscar Wilde said, "I have lived all there was to live. I found the sweet bitter and the bitter sweet. I was happy in prison because there I found my soul."

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 5 : Solitude > # 60