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"Freedom" Quotes

"Freedom" follows the Berglund family as they navigate love, ambition, and betrayal in modern America.

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The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

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The feeling of being part of something larger than oneself can be immensely gratifying.

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belonginggratitude

But freedom was a higher value than happiness.

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Every human soul is of infinite importance.

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You could make yourself crazy trying to control everything.

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Love is the only thing that can save anyone.

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loveredemption

But I'm not sure that anyone has the capacity to love like that.

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lovecapacity

When people say they love the truth, what they really mean is that they love the comfortable feeling they get when they hear the truth.

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Relationships are complicated; love is simple.

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Freedom from fear is the freedom I claim for you.

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