"Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."
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"Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them."
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"I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society."
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"What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see."
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"Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?"
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"Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence."
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"Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to.""
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"Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself."
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"One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence."
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"The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws."
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"Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once."
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"All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent."
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"Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!"
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"The only issue cash presents you is the independence of not stressing about funds."
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"A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature."
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"I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence."
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"No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be religious?" "Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odéon Bar and all that."
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