Freedom

by Jonathan Franzen
United States
Born on 17 Aug 1959
Novelist/Essayist

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Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

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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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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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This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

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

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You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.

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

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Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays