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Bahya ibn Paquda4 quotes“If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.”
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Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna What good in a man’s life if it’s not lived free eh?
Bartolomeo d'AlvianoBartolomeo d'Alviano I think I’m like a free spirit.
Bai LingBai Ling Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?
Baron d'HolbachBaron d'Holbach I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I’ll be free.
Barry WebsterBarry Webster The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out.
Barbara DemingBarbara Deming To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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