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If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

Max Stirner

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.
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Infatuation Men Sacred
The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
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Individual Liberty Limit
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?
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Beginning End Middle
Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.
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Freedom Grant Liberty Taken
If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!
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Care Possible Take Themselves
One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.
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Taken Weakness Worthy
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
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Children Object
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
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Fiction Grace Law
The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!
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Fortune Good People
We don’t call it sin today, we call it self-expression.
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Cynical Expression Self
From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.
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Light Men Sight
Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the “true man,” and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.
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Men Real Religious

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