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Freedom often feels like a distant horizon, yet Sarah Perry pulls it into focus with vivid, personal anecdotes. She balances the politics of liberty with intimate moments of self‑assertion, showing how the pursuit of autonomy shapes both public discourse and private lives.

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“Sometimes I think I sold my soul, so that I can live as I must. Oh, I don't mean without morals or conscience- I only mean with freedom to think the thoughts that come, to send them where I want…

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“Well then, he said. What are you doing here? I am not sure. Liberty I suppose. I lived so long under constraints. You wonder why I grub about in the mud - it's what I remember from childhood. Barely ever…

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“The point is not what I see, but what I feel; I cannot see the ether, yet I feel it enter and depart, and…

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“...But doesn't it take greater strength to walk a mile in pain than seven miles in none? You are a woman, and must begin…

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“Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and it’s worse…

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“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures…

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“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those…

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“CLEAVE. To cleave to something is to cling to it with all your heart, he said, but to cleave something apart is to break…

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“But it was impossible to share my feelings of grief with Peggy, because most of the time it was impossible to feel them. My…

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“what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no more fixed than the…

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“She'd never know what to do with children: Francis had wrong-footed her so completely that she'd come to think of them as delightful but…

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“the old stories were right, she thought, and man had been first made from a handful of dust, here was Adam himself: all mud,…

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“Let me tell you: where the knife failed, you have succeeded. He is shattered - you have turned out all his lights! You have…

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“It was just the light,’ she said, ‘up to its old tricks. But how was my heart to know?”

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“I’d no idea you knew England extended past Palmer’s Green: are you lost?”

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“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much of what…

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“The fear of the crowd then came to Will, with the taste of a copper penny placed on his tongue; and it was not…

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