The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?

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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

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When we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.

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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

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Euractiv: W UE wyrażane są niezadowolenie z tempem reform na Ukrainie. #Ursula von der Leyen podkreśliła, że odblokowanie pozostałej części pomocy finansowej dla Ukrainy (ponad 20 miliardów #euro w ramach programu #Ukraine Facility oraz programów

Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]

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#Zelensky a démenti les rumeurs de différend avec #Ursula von der Leyen. Selon lui, leur rencontre à New York a été « tout à fait positive ». Zelensky a indiqué qu'il avait discuté avec la présidente de la Commission européenne du financement de l

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

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The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

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And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

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