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“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

tags: banned-books, censorship, evil, fear, freedom, hypocrisy, intellectual-freedom, literature, perversion, puritanism, sterility

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“Truth is a beauty, whether pretty or not.
Love doesn't always mean you should stay.
Sometimes the truth has to punch you, twice.
Love doesn't always mean you should stay.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

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“See, nobody warns you about yourself.
The red in your eye.
The trap in your mouth.

The person who hurts you the most in the end will
be you.
Almost every time, you.

You'd better learn to forgive yourself.
Forgive yourself instantly.
It's a skill you're going to need until you die.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

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“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: banned-books, banned-books-week, books, censorship, freedom-to-read, ideas, intellectual-freedom

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“It wasn’t perfect. It isn’t now. I still have days when I want to exit the system quicker then you can say, “don’t you dare give up now”, and you still have days where you can’t even taste the sweetness in raw honey and neither one of us believes in pills. Days when I so want to kiss you but your mouth is sour and my thoughts are bitter and I’m angry…just mad, just crazy with it all. But we are each others home sweet home, Love. The roof is screwed on too tight at times and the walls of our purple house can pinch a little but my God, they are always warm.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward

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