You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]: (ed. 2009)