“In a word, suppressing feelings in order to live to a ripe old age, or dying young by accepting the martyrdom of passion, that is our destiny.”

― Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass’s Skin

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“I have often wished myself a beast, or a bird—anything, rather than a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”

― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“They're all right in a way—I'm very good friends with them—pass the time of day when we meet, and all that—but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then—well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“every man must have somewhere to turn...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.”

― Jack London, White Fang

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