Two of them uh have told me that they're grateful to be on death row because otherwise they'd already be dead and it gave them a chance to reform their personalities and I'm affected by those stories. I think they're genuine.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to hope; and the man who has ceased to hope has ceased to live. For it is by the alternation of terror and desire that we keep alive the trembling flame of experience.
George Santayana — The Life of Reason
It is not by remorse for the past that we can repair our mistakes; it is by attention to the present, and by not repeating them.
Simone Weil — Waiting for God
Listen and learn. Time is divided into two rivers: one flows backward, devouring life already lived; the other moves forward with you exposing your life. For a single second they may be joined.
Pablo Neruda