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"One man's fight is another man's freedom."
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"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."

"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."

"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."

"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."

"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."

"What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?"

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."

"The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it."
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"Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere."

"People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get."

"When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer."

"People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book."

"Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people " and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?"

"Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere."

"He is polite, the perfect gentleman at first. Yet she knows his kindness is an act he performs for himself to justify what he's about to do."
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