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set free

Verb

Meaning

grant freedom to

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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. Arthur Miller

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God. Augustine of Hippo

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. Alistair Cooke

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature. Franz Kafka

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives. Gilles Deleuze

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. Jewish Proverb

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