“What is the seal of liberation? — No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Sec. 275
The Gay Science (1882)
“…to hell with being ashamed of what you liked.”
— Ralph Ellison, book Invisible Man
Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 13.
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