Bandy-legged mongrel
This is from a wonderful fictional account of the (real) first dog sent into space by the Soviets. Her life...
To go or not to go
The Hungarian poet György Faludy weighs up whether to stay in Hungary or to leave at the start of the...
Spike-guarded walls
The underlying theme of Jane Eyre is her refusal to be penned in by spike-guarded walls, real or metaphorical, and her...
A thousand years of history
On the centenary of the October Revolution, I wonder how Russians today would feel about this terse statement by Grossman.
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The thoughts of a pig
A wonderfully involved tail of a pig's escape and eventual recapture.
Firstly, a protracted endeavour to find him, eventually discovered...
Freedom fatigue
Many people long for and fight for one form or another of freedom.  Many others have it and take it...
Gasping for freedom
The departure of the one kind person in the orphanage where she has spent more than half her young life,...
The individual and humankind
Beneath the froth and ferment of daily news, there is often a working through of the relationship between individual freedom...
Like drops of scalding water
Curious to use 'scalding', suggesting she was happy to have the present fall away from her, that in some respect...
Choking on our freedoms
Freedom
Glad to bring you another themed selection of quotations. Freedom is of course an eternal theme, but...
Life-giving elixir
These fine-minded sisters come into an inheritance adequate to free them from having to face the economic implications of remaining...
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