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"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
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"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."
"Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over."
"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."
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"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
"No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!"
"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
"Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!"
"Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism, but romanticism when others are around is suspicious because you may be pretending!"
"The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!"
"You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!"
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