One of the booby traps of ...

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life\'s banquet.
One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
 Saul Bellow

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting - the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
 Saul Bellow
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
 Saul Bellow
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
 Saul Bellow
A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
 Saul Bellow
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
 Saul Bellow