“How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Source: Gone with the Wind
“The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.”
Las cadenas que más nos encadenan son las cadenas que hemos roto.
Voces (1943)
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“He went down to hell, but it was to break the chains, not to bind them.”
James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith
Letter II
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: I would not so dishonour God as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him. I believe that we may find in the Bible the highest and purest religion..... most of all in the history of Him in whose name we all are called. His religion — not the Christian religion, but the religion of Christ — the poor man's gospel; the message of forgiveness, of reconciliation, of love; and, oh, how gladly would I spend my life, in season and out of season, in preaching this! But I must have no hell terrors, none of these fear doctrines; they were not in the early creeds, God knows whether they were ever in the early gospels, or ever passed His lips. He went down to hell, but it was to break the chains, not to bind them.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 583.