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No particular reason for anything. I'm free - that's the main thing.
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.
Siddhartha
People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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