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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goal...more

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for a new culture. Man’s unbroken testimony as to his...more

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And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and ...more

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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertain...more

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If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposi...more

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They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

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If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socia...more

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Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

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Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconce...more