“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.” - G.K. Chesterton
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Freedom is an interesting concept. Look at this excerpt from "Les Miserables" (talking about a prison escapee):
"He wandered two days in freedom through the fields; if it is freedom to be hunted, to turn your head each moment, to tremble at the least noise, to be afraid of everything, of the smoke of a chimeny, the passing of a man, the baying of a dog, the gallop of a hors, the striking of a clock, of the day because you see, of the night because you do not; of the road, of the path, the bush, of sleep."
Sometimes freedom can be found in the most unlikely of places. The worst kind of bondage, and the most prevalent, the hardest to see and easist to be controlled by, comes from inside a person, from their own desires.
the baying of a dog, the gallop of a hors, the striking of a clock, of the day because you see, of the night because you do not; of the road, of the path, the bush, of sleep."
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