A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
~ Jim Morrison
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Our demons
We never lose our demons, we only learn to live above them.
~ The Ancient One, Doctor Strange
where there is no path
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But dignity
Hunger comes and goes, but dignity, once lost, never returns.
~ Nicolai Lilin, Siberian Education
The opposite of love
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
~Elie Wiesel
So we beat on, boats against the current…
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning – So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
~ Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby
No artist
No artist tolerates reality.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“I wear the chain I forged in life”
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Piazza Castello, Torino (Piedmont, Italy).
“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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freedom of speech
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
but already it was impossible to say which was which
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
~ George Orwell, Animal Farm
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