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• Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

  Nirmalananda

  Men, Society, Modern

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• Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

  David Mitchell

  Bunnies, Fluffy, Zoom

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.173, Random House Group

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• The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

  Brian Francis

  Strong, War, Blood

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• My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it well.

  Sarah Wylie

  Heart, Voice, Hopeful

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• Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Vegetarian, Vegan, Used

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• I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Air, Bird, Looks

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• I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Heart, Sadness, Needs

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• I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mean, Lions, Teach

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• If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

  Fannie Flagg

  Running, Home, Nine

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.290, Random House

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• A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

  Sharon Creech

  Freedom, Bird, Persons

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• That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Looks, Look Up

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Slavery, Slave, Deputies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Long, Bars, Long Time

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

  Richard Selzer

  Heart, Theater, Nightingales

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• Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Fire, Waiting, Age

  Song: The Innocent Age, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

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• Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

  Dave McKean

  Bird, Captivity, Never Quit

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• Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

  Charles Jencks

  Space, Perspective, Elements

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• The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Marriage, Time

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

  Greg Egan

  Tigers, Emerging, Loses

  Greg Egan (2009). “Crystal Nights and Other Stories”, Subterranean

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• I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Letting Go, Mother, Art

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• People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  People, Kind, Terrible

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1336, Delphi Classics

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• He who frees a bird from its cage is surely a holy person!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bird, Holy, Persons

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• We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.

  Virginia McKenna

  Dog, Zoos, Animal

  Virginia McKenna, Will Travers, Jonathan Wray (1987). “Beyond the bars: the zoo dilemma”, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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• I could have completely lost my mind or became a junkie or abandoned all sense and judgment and committed some rash, stupid act that would have sent me right back into the cage. Instead, I chose to be happy - but not so much for the sake of happiness as for spite.

  Jim Goad

  Stupid, Mind, Sake

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.

  Kedar Joshi

  Blood, Flesh, Philosopher

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