Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it’s hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.
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A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go–never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another’s bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
