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To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.
 Theo van Doesburg

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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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We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.
 Theo van Doesburg
Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.
 Theo van Doesburg