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Freedom Quote by Salman Rushdie

““Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention. Your songs are your planets. Live on them but make no home there. What you write about, you lose. What you sing, leaves you on the wings of song. Sing against death. Command the wildness of the city. Freedom to reject is the only freedom. Freedom to uphold is dangerous. Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.””

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