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In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.176, Open Road Media

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.60, Penguin

I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

"Noble and Ignoble" by Jed Perl, newrepublic.com. February 1, 2013.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.72, Random House