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I envy the savages. And I will cry to them in a loud voice: “Save yourselves, civilization is coming.”

— Bruno Filippi The Rebel’s Dark Laughter: The Writings of Bruno Filippi (1918)

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Proudly alone, I break the chains that link me to you and separate myself from the pack of mangy dogs, submissive to the shepherd.

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Rebel, because today society oppresses me and tries to prevent the free expression of my being, I use every weapon to fight it.

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I, who have the strength and awareness to be my own motive force, will not be the little cog that is overwhelmed, annihilated by the heavy social gears.

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I am surrounded by a humanity that wants what everyone else wants. My isolated affirmation is a most serious crime.

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