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“Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free. ”
― Janette Oke

tags: freedom, janette-oke, servants

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“Until we are all free, we are none of us free. ”
― Emma Lazarus

tags: freedom, liberty

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“You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: free-will, freedom

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“It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do not weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]

tags: loss, love, time

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“Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]

tags: 22, looking, photography

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