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Freedom

Freedom
Jonathan Franzen

Freedom is a 2010 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Freedom received general acclaim from book critics, and was ranked one of the best books of 2010 by several publications, and has been described as a "Great American Novel".

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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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“I admire your capacity for admiring.”

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“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”

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“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.”

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“Use well thy freedom.”

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“But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.”

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“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”

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“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”

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“There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.”

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