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Tag: freedom, love

Yevgeny Zamyatin

I walked alone through the twilit street. The wind was whirling, driving, carrying me like a slip of paper. Fragments of cast-iron sky flew and flew-they had another day, two days to hurtle through infinity… The unifs of passersby brushed against me, but I walked alone. I saw it clearly: everyone was saved, but there was no salvation for me. I did not want salvation …”(c)

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.

William Paul Young

For any created being, autonomy is lunacy. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love.

When you love someone, really love them, you don’t put chains on them. You want them to be free.

Mikhail Bulgakov

If you’ve been exiled, why don’t you send me word of yourself? People do send word. Have you stopped loving me? No, for some reason I don’t believe that. It means you were exiled and died … Release me, then, I beg you, give me freedom to live, finally, to breathe the air! …’ Margarita Nikolaevna answered for him herself: ’You are free … am I holding you?’ Then she objected to him: ’No, what kind of answer is that? No, go from my memory, then I’ll be free …

But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.

Tennessee Williams

-The little comfort of love?-Is that comfort so little?-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn’t worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

We love our lovin’….but not like we love our freedom.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Freely we serveBecause we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.