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- Author's profession: Clergyman
- Nationality: american
- Born: July 27, 1891
- Died: August 21, 1968
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I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly through the days, knowing nothing, whom I saw now with awful wisdom. ... I had hesitated to make this journey, had put it off year after year but had known always that eventually it must be undertaken. And, confronted at last with the mirage -- with the shining phantom of that other time -- I was surprised to find that it was myself that was the poignant presence.
Penelope Lively
Prisimeni kosmin dsn? Toks tok traukia. Tiesiog bk koks esi: ramus, viesus ir giedras. Kai leidiame suvisti visai savo esybei, kai kiekvien minut klausiame savs, ar i tikro norime taip elgtis ir darome tai tik atsak sau "Taip", tuomet savaime atstumiame nuo savs tuos, kurie nieko i ms negali imokti, ir pritraukiame ne tik gebanius mokytis i ms, bet ir tuos, i kuri patys turime k perimti.
Richard Bach
Freedom is not a quality of man, nor is it an ability, a capacity, a kind of being that somehow flares up in him. Anyone investigating man to discover freedom finds nothing of it. Why? because freedom is not a quality which can be revealed--it is not a possession, a presence, an object, nor is it a form of existence--but a relationship and nothing else. In truth, freedom is a relationship between two persons. Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer