Quotes About Freedom

And it was true that she had to accept, to consent in the real sense of the term, for nothing would be inflicted upon her by force to which she had not already previously consented; she could refuse, nothing was keeping her enslaved except her love and her self-enslavement. What prevented her from leaving?)

My sweet angel," he had said, "you mean you still haven't understood that you no longer belong to me, that I'm no longer the master who's in charge of you?" Not

The despair which had overwhelmed her slowly ebbed: he loved her, ah he loved her. He was free to enjoy himself with Jeanne, or with others, he loved her. "I love you," he had whispered in her ear, "I love you," so softly it was scarcely audible. "I love you.

The remark, for instance, that the only freedoms we really appreciate are those which cast others into an equivalent state of servitude.

Y es que René la dejaba libre y ella detestaba su libertad. Su libertad era peor que cualquier cadena.

Que no era libre? Ah, gracias a Dios, no lo era. Pero se sentía ligera, una diosa sobre las nubes, un pez en el agua, colmada de felicidad.

I'll do whatever you like

a woman's desire is harmless and of no consequence?

Su promesa la ataba tanto como las pulseras de cuero y las cadenas.

Pero nada le ayudaba tanto como el silencio, excepto las cadenas. Las cadenas y el silencio, que hubieran debido atarla al fondo de sí misma, ahogarla, estrangularla, por el contrario la liberaban.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let's leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.

Two more divorces. Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and commit myself to—what is best for me.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

To love is to lose control.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

Death frees from the fear of dying