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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

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Max Stirner
Age: 49 †
Born: 1806
Born: October 25
Died: 1856
Died: June 26
Educator
Journalist
Philosopher
Professor Of Philosophy
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Johann Kaspar Schmidt
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Beginning
Choose
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Freedom

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