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Notes: 424 / 6 months ago"Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can’t live alone, you were born a slave."- Fernando Pessoa - Bernardo Soares, ”The Book of Disquiet” (from Text 283)
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Notes: 100 / 8 months ago"You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to."- Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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Notes: 516 / 1 year ago from frenchtwist (originally from onestonedcrow)"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."-
Khalil Gibran
from onestonedcrow and frenchtwist
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Notes: 238 / 1 year ago from liquidnight"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."-
Colette, Freedom
from liquidnight
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Notes: 70 / 1 year ago"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."- Colette, Freedom,1908
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Notes: 81 / 1 year ago from bookmarklet
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
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Notes: 74 / 2 years ago from yama-bato"I feel I am free but I know I am not."-
happy belated 100th birthday to Emil Cioran [April 8, 1911 – June 20, 1995]
from yama-bato
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Notes: 63 / 2 years ago
For You My Love
I went to the market, where they sell birds
and I bought some birds
for you
my love
I went to the market, where they sell flowers
and I bought some flowers
for you
my love
I went to the market, where they sell chains
and I bought some chains
heavy chains
for you
my love
And then I went to the slave market
and I looked for you
but I did not find you there
my loveJacques Prévert
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Notes: 17 / 2 years ago
I Am a Bird of the Heavenly Garden
I am a bird of the heavenly garden
I belong not to the earthly sphere,
They have made for two or three days
A cage of my body.
Rumi
[thanks to A Journey Round My Skull]
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Notes: 86 / 2 years ago from invisiblestories"We are only passing through here on earth, I understand that perfectly now; we have no roots, we bear no fruit. In short, our mode of existence is different from that of trees. That said, I’m very fond of trees, in fact I’ve come to love them more and more; but I am not a tree. We are more like stones, cast into the void as free as they are; or if you absolutely insist in seeing the glass half full, we are a little like comets."
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Notes: 14 / 2 years ago
![“You can go to any place and any time that you wish to go,” the Elder said. ”I’ve gone everywhere and every-when I can think of.” He looked across the sea. “It’s strange. The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection, go anywhere, instantly. Remember, Jonathan, heaven isn’t place or time, because place and time are so very meaningless. Heaven is… ”
from Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull
up in the sky II
[September 2010, ferry to Thassos Island]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9d9igGxhk1qztk1wo1_500.jpg)
“You can go to any place and any time that you wish to go,” the Elder said. ”I’ve gone everywhere and every-when I can think of.” He looked across the sea. “It’s strange. The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection, go anywhere, instantly. Remember, Jonathan, heaven isn’t place or time, because place and time are so very meaningless. Heaven is… ”
from Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull
[September 2010, ferry to Thassos Island]
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Notes: 26 / 2 years ago from bookmarklet
![Imagination Is Freedom Is Imagination
have an endless summer of love or not,choice is all yours….
<3
b.
[photo from LIFE in 1930s]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6jmlkKNUQ1qztk1wo1_500.jpg)
Imagination Is Freedom Is Imagination
have an endless summer of love or not,choice is all yours….
<3
b.
[photo from LIFE in 1930s]
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Notes: 21 / 3 years ago from invisiblestories"The only freedom the gods grant us
Is this: to submit
Of our own free will to their sovereignty.
We should do just that,
Since only in the illusion of freedom
Does freedom exist."-Ricardo Reis, or Fernando Pessoa
via invisiblestories
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Notes: 6 / 3 years ago from nomoreheroes
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