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Quotes About Freedom

I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.
~ Jennifer Niven
There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.
~ Jennifer Niven
I think what an amazing world this would be if we all danced everywhere we went.
~ Jennifer Niven
He leans forward over the handlebars, eyes on me. "I'd go to Hoosier Hill with a beautiful girl.
~ Jennifer Niven
No one can lock you back in, Libby. You choose whether you let them.
~ Jennifer Niven
You know what? Why don't we just forget it? Why don't I go by myself? I think I'd rather go alone anyway.
~ Jennifer Niven
Maybe it's better that she's locked away from the rest of the world. Maybe she's not cut out to live like other people with other people. Maybe she belongs in that house forever.
~ Jennifer Niven
This is my secret - that at any moment I might fly away.
~ Jennifer Niven
This is my secret---that any moment I might fly away.
~ Jennifer Niven
Who cares for Algebra? Who delights in solving math? I only want to live my life Along the creative path.
~ Jennifer Niven
Éste es mi secreto: en cualquier momento saldré volando y huiré de aquí.
~ Jennifer Niven
Escrever. (...) Ao longo das linhas, aceitar todo e qualquer pensamento (não tenha medo deles, independente do que sejam).
~ Jennifer Niven
And then … she had hardly looked beyond, but there was a great, summer-scented breeze blowing through her spirit, telling her she was young and fair, and wealthy into the bargain
~ Ellis Peters
You get out," Foley said, "you're free, they can't deport you?" "Fidel won't take us back." "You glad you came to America?" "I'm grateful for the ways they are to improve myself since I come to La Yuma. I respect how justice wears a blindfold, like a fucking hostage.
~ Elmore Leonard
The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.
~ Elyse Fitzpatrick
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.
~ Emil Cioran
Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.
~ Émile Zola
Les gouvernements suspectent la littérature parce qu'elle est une force qui leur échappe.
~ Émile Zola
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
~ Émile Zola
Raising her arms, she defied Heaven. 'So,' she cried, 'you prefer your God to me? You think he is stronger than I am. You think he will love you better than I would? Ah, what a child you are! Do stop talking such twaddle. What we are going to do is go back to the garden together, and love each other, be happy and free, for that is life.
~ Émile Zola
Ah! si ton mari mourait... Si mon mari mourait..., répéta lentement Thérèse. Nous nous marierions ensemble, nous ne craindrions plus rien, nous jouirions largement de nos amours... Quelle bonne et douce vie!
~ Émile Zola
Señor, ¿por qué no han de tener las mujeres derecho para encontrar guapos a los hombres que lo sean, y por qué ha de mirarse mal que lo manifiesten? (...) Si no lo decimos, lo pensamos, y no hay nada mas peligroso que lo reprimido y oculto, lo que se queda dentro.
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
La sabiduría rompe las cadenas de la fatalidad y nos deja libres de las atadurillas liliputienses de la costumbre.
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán