“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds.

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.