The Heart of the Revolution (2011)
Letters for Literary Ladies (1795), "Julia and Caroline", Letter 1; Tales and Novels, vol. 13, p. 225.
“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
“The process of breaking the code was enormously complicated in real life.”
As quoted in "Interview: Morten Tyldum, Graham Moore of The Imitation Game" by PatrickMcD at Hollywood Chicago (11 December 2014)
Context: What is amazing about the story is that the most fantastic things that occur, that people most don't believe, are absolutely true — like the Soviet mole that they allowed to operate within British war intelligence — that was all true. … We condensed the timeline, essentially. The process of breaking the code was enormously complicated in real life. So one of things we wanted to do was open up Turing's story to the audience and make a film about these complicated topics, but at the same time create a narrative that the audience understands, without insulting their intelligence. But the on a broad conceptual level, everything is true.
“When I break any of the chains that bind me, I feel that I make myself smaller.”
Cuando rompo algunas de las cadenas que me encadenan, siento que me disminuyo.
Voces (1943)
Variant: When I break any of the chains that bind me, I feel that I make myself smaller.
“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”
Source: Anthology of Black Humor
"The Psychology of Altruism", p. 308–309
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Ethical Kinship
"Break the Chains" (song), with Rationale (Tinashé Fazakerley)
("Break the Chains" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvosF7mbrnE
Studio albums, Some Nights Last for Days (2020)
Never Born, Never Died (2002)
Context: Tao mystics never talk about God, reincarnation, heaven, hell. No, they don't talk about these things. These are all creations of human mind: explanations for something which can never be explained, explanations for the mystery. In fact, all explanations are against God because explanation de-mystifies existence. Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No, explanation is not needed — only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.
