"Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer." - Albert Einstein.

"When a fish swims, it swims on and on and there is no end to the water. When a bird flies, it flies on and on and there is no end to the sky. There was never a fish that swam out of the water, or a bird that flew out of the sky. When they need a little water or sky, they use just a little; when they need a lot, they use a lot. Thus they use all of it at every moment, and in every place they have perfect freedom." - Dōgen.

The Zen master said, "Who binds you?" The seeker of liberty said, "No one binds me." The Zen master said, "Then why seek liberation?" - Zen Mondo.

"We think of the key, each in his prison / Thinking of the key, each confirms his prison." - T. S. Eliot.

"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free." - Red, "The Shawshank Redemption".

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." - Kris Kristofferson.

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