The Importance of Love in Prison

In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, he can through loving contemplation of his beloved achieve fulfillment. As the inner life of the prison attended to become more intense, he also experienced the beauty of art and nature as never before. In given free reign, his imagination played with past events, often not important ones, but minor happenings and trifling things. His nostalgic memory glorified them and they assumed a strange character. Their world and their existence seemed very distant and the spirit reached out for them longingly.