"Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition."

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Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”

Andrzej Stasiuk

#Loss Quotes #Availability Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.”
“When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.”
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”
“Whatever you say, say nothing.”
“When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.”
“Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.46, Courier Corporation
“When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.”
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

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