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Madeleine L'Engle

"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom."

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"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."

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"If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance."

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"As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time."

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"So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities."

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"Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body."

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"You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong."

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"No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!"

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"Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God."

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"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."
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"In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come."
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"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
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"We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love."
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"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
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"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."
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"With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me."
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"They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse."
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"Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other harshly and were cold of heart."
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