Independence · Skopia

Quotes

6

Novel · Coming of age story

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1902

★ 3.5

Essay · Newspaper

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

1792

★ 2.0

Film · Fantasy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Fantasy · Comedy drama

There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they are faster or stronger than other fish, they're just touched by something extra.

Big Fish · 2003

★ 2.0

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Books

2

India After Gandhi

Ramachandra Guha

2007★ 6.4

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

Lawrence Durrell

1957★ 4.8