Freedom Quote by Emile M. Cioran

“The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.”

Emile M. Cioran

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He who hates himself is not humble.

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One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

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