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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about school, reason

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about experience, mother

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about experience

Lost time: I think that it will influence me, but in the same time it will make me angry for each of my sentences.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about time, influence