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cage quotes

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“‘What do you fear, lady?’ he asked. ‘A cage,’ she said. ‘To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.’” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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