a convict never saves money? Well, difficult keep it, prison life mise — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, House Dead

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Why is it that a convict never saves his money? Well, not only is it difficult for him to keep it, but prison life is so miserable that a man, of his very nature, thirsts for freedom of action. His position in society makes him so irregular a being that the idea of swallowing up his capital in orgies, of intoxicating himself with revelry, seems to him quite natural if only he can procure himself one moment's forgetfulness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

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