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Freedom Quotes
"There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart, I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for meto do, there alighted the fear, haunting me with the words that rangconstantly in my head, 'You're not brave enough'.I didn't feel devastated, I felt the urge to be devastated."
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"Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations."
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"Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved."
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"I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world's indifference; then, having achieved a measure of success, he must submit to a good grace of its hazards...But he has one compensation, Whenever he has anything on his mind, whether it be a harassing reflection, grief at the death of a friend, unrequited love, wounded pride, anger at the treachery of someone to whom he has shown kindness, in short any emotion or any perplexing thought, he has only to put it down in black and white, using it as a theme of a story or the decoration of an essay, to forget all about it. He is the only free man."
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"God created people free, but in order to receive true freedom we have to obey God's rules."
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"Oh darling, your only too wild, to those whom are to tame, don't let opinions change you."
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"A life of living free and taking endless satisfaction from a person's promiscuous meanderings entails intermittently retooling oneself to meet a desired future. Perhaps the most difficult challenge of life is detecting when the ground moves beneath us and then nimbly shifting our mental perspective."
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"Joblessness is a rare privilege."
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"The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked down the dead streets without looking back, he no longer felt that he was leaving the next morning but that he had gone away many years before with the irrevocable determination never to return."
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"Losing your job releases you from the control of the world system."
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"I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do."
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"I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone."
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"You can love her with everything you have and she still wont belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside you with everystep but let me tell you something about women who run with wolves, their fierce hearts dont settle between walls and their instinct is stronger than upbringing. Love her wild or leave her there."
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"We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs."
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"You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."
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"You don't have to live by someone else's rules. Do what you want. Be free."
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"I live there...Far above the song-filled clouds,where the dewdrops touch my skin so bareI live there."
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"I suggest that people walk around under the moon barefoot, as I have today. There's that voice of your mom and dad and aunt and big sister and uncle and annoying cousin in your ear saying "Your feet are going to get dirty and you're going to turn into a bat" so the defiance in the act of simply taking your shoes off and standing there under that moon- is astronomical. A dirty-feet-moonlit-defiance that will make you smile."
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"You're not free, until you get rid of I-myself-me; and let enter 'That', which, the sages call "Thee"."
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"Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete."
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"That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting."
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"Dance as if nobody is watching, love as if you have never been hurt."
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"Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!"
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"The one, who does not have the 'poison' of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic)."
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"I have stood in the places where history was made. I have seen with my own eyes the part that men and women of faith have played in these earthshaking events, and I have heard with my own ears their cries for freedom."
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"When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!"
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"Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!"
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"However much you love them, you must let everything and everybody that desperately long for their freedom to be free!"
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"Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering."
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"Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself."
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"Everything about sex and freedom interests me."
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"When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own."
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"We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet."
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"The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?"
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"One becomes independent (free) from the moment one realizes the principle that, 'No living being is able to interfere with another living being to the slightest'."
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