“You are crying for freedom because you have allowed your temper to go wild.”
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Congolese author 1996Related quotes
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“If you want your freedom, go and take it."”
Harry Turtledove book Ruled Britannia
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Context: Dying Boudicca managed a feeble nod, and sent her last words out to a breathlessly silent Theatre:
"E'en so; 'Tis true. Oh!- I feel the poison!
We Britons never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when we do first help to wound ourselves,
Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue,
If Britons to themselves do rest but true."
She fell back and lay dead. Shakespeare strode forward, to the very front of the stage. Into more silence, punctuated only by sobs, he said,
"No epilogue here, unless you make it;
If you want your freedom, go and take it."
“You’re not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns