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Freedom is a pair of trousers and a buttoned coat.
“It is a crime,” he says, “that women are not taught the same as men. Why, a world without reading, I cannot fathom it. A whole long life without poems, or plays, or philosophers. Shakespeare, Socrates, to say nothing of Descartes!”
To find a way, or make your own.
“Small places make for small lives. And some people are fine with that. They like knowing where to put their feet. But if you only walk in other people’s steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark.”
That time always ends a second before you’re ready. That life is the minutes you want minus one.
Because the girl he loved is gone. And he’s still here. He remembers everything.
