Papillon (1973)

“Hey, you bastards, I am still here.”

“This, the infamous penal system in French Guyana did not survive him.”

Movie

Quotations from the book The Roots of Heaven

Ideals don’t die – obliged to live on shit sometimes, but don’t die!

He defended one of the most tenacious roots heaven had ever planted in the hearts of men— the root they called liberty.

Who desperately pursue a certain ideal of human decency, call it tolerance, justice or liberty.

Years of isolation in the depths of the jungle have no power against a tenacious hope.