Quotes About Independence

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

this is a Free Planet.

after Fourth of July celebrations

In the broad field of Russian letters in the USSR, I was the one and only literary wolf. I was advised to dye my fur. Absurd advice. You can dye a wolf, clip a wolf - he still doesn't look like a poodle. - to Joseph Stalin, May 30, 1931

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never—and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself. They will make the offer and they will give of their own accord

No, make me forget you, then I'll be free.

Many rare beauties live under our skies, And bright shine the stars in the dark of their eyes. Their love is as sweet as a pleasure can be- But a youth ever longs for a life that is free. Money will buy any number of wives, But a fiery horse is beyond any price. Fast as the wind he will bear you away, Never deceive you, and never betray.

She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others

Missions are stupid, Tereza. I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. If we cannot change the world, let's at least change our lives and live them freely.

Missão, Tereza, é uma palavra idiota. Eu não tenho missão. Ninguém tem missão. E é um alívio enorme perceber que somos livres, que não temos missão.

he tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could move in with a suitcase

and she thinks, almost joyfully, that it's fine this way because the truth is finally revealed: she feels no need to understand him or to have him understand her.

She now knew there were conditions under which she could feel strong and fulfilled, and she longed to go off into the world and seek those conditions somewhere else.

Jedino Å¡to nam preostaje pobuna je protiv sudbine koju nismo izabrali.

How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?

She had always taken it as a given that emigrating was a misfortune. But, now she wonders, wasn't it instead an illusion of misfortune, an illusion suggested by the way people perceive an émigré? Wasn't she interpreting her own life according to the operating instructions other people had handed her? And she thought that even though it had been imposed from the outside and against her will, her emigration was perhaps, without her knowing it, the best outcome for her life.

Consciousness of being loved separates a woman from the herd

Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future.

Irena went to the window to savor the freedom of solitude.

I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions.

la ilusión que nos hace considerar la situación de nuestra vida como un simple decorado, una circunstancia contingente e intercambiable por la que transita nuestro 'yo', independiente y constante.

Qué había querido decirle con su regalo? Que fuera libre. Que viviera como quería vivir, que fuera a donde quería ir. El nunca se había atrevido. Por eso le había dado todos los medios a su hija para que ella se atreviera.