If God needs to condemn anything to hell, it ought to be the idea of social death. Every day we commit an act of revolution, an act of treason, against a system that was never meant to guarantee our survival.
This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.
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Osamu Dazai
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
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Bob Marley
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't...
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Jim Morrison
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