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Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all — why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?

— Max Stirner The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

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You long for freedom? You fools! If you took might, freedom would come of itself.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

"Freedom" awakens your rage against everything that is not you; "egoism" calls you to joy over yourselves, to self-enjoyment.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)

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