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What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?
What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?
Approximate author period: c. 1964 AD · modern
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- Jo Walton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1964 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Jo Walton: documented birth year 1964; activity date not established. Wikidata Q438330, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438330 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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