"Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison."

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Source : Curzio Malaparte (2007). “Woman Like Me”, p.7, Troubador Publishing Ltd

Curzio Malaparte

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