#ceases

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

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The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. ↗

— Robert Jackson

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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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