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Such is the remorseless progression of
human society, shedding lives and souls as
it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which
men sink who have been cast out by the
law and consigned, with help most cruelly
withheld, to moral death. The sea is the
pitiless social darkness into which the penal
system casts those it has condemned, an
unfathomable waste of misery. The human
soul, lost in those depths, may become a
corpse. Who shall revive it?
- Victor Hugo
human society, shedding lives and souls as
it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which
men sink who have been cast out by the
law and consigned, with help most cruelly
withheld, to moral death. The sea is the
pitiless social darkness into which the penal
system casts those it has condemned, an
unfathomable waste of misery. The human
soul, lost in those depths, may become a
corpse. Who shall revive it?
- Victor Hugo
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