You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives–and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?–your captivity and the captivity...
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Daniel Quinn
But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of...
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Laura Hillenbrand
Please wake me when I'm free I cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blind Than 2 live without expression of mind
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Tupac Shakur
Remember how it is written of Job, “The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.” While he prayed for himself, he remained a captive; but when he prayed for those unfriendly friends of his, then the Lord smiled upon him,...
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the slats of the shutters, striped from top to bottom with parallel...
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Marcel Proust
More Quotes By Henrik Ibsen
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
To live is to war with trolls.
A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
