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No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.
Sayings of the Week, Observer (London) (1987)
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.
Freedom
Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
I want to seize my is. And like a bird I sing hallelujah into the air. And my song belongs to no one. But no passion suffered in pain and love is not followed by an hallelujah.
The Stream Of Life
I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.
A Breath of Life
And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
The Passion According to G.H.
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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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