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Jean Anouilh Quotes: All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.
         

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.


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This page presents the quote "All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.". Author of this quote is Jean Anouilh. This quote is about fellows, guilty, empty, names, ideas, innocence,.