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“Freedom is always frightening; that's why most people choose not to be free.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“But we consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the genealogical table of evolution as far back as the fish and even much further, so we bear everything in our soul that once was alive in the soul of men.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Love, which exempts no one who's loved from loving.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“But the people who did get that love, they grew up to be different from us. More secure. Maybe they're not as shiny or successful as you and I feel we have to be. But it's not because they're not interesting. They just don't feel they have to do the tap dance, you know? They don't have to prove themselves all the time to be loved. Because they always were.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein