There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ― Søren Kierkegaard

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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. ― John Green

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At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

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The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary. Joel Osteen

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ― Charlotte Brontë

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. – Ambrose Bierce

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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. ― David Foster Wallace

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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ― Abraham Lincoln

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