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Sterner Things

Sterner Things (2)
Therefore there is only one form of freedom for Stirner, “my
power,” and only
one truth, “the magnificent egotism of the stars.”
In this desert everything begins to flower again. “The
terrifying significance of an unpremeditated cry of
joy cannot be understood while the long night of faith and
reason endures.“ This night is drawing to a
close, and a dawn will break which is not the dawn of
revolution but of insurrection. Insurrection is, in
itself, an asceticism which rejects all forms of
consolation. The insurgent will not be in agreement with
other men except in so far as, and as long as, their
egotism coincides with his. His real life is led in
solitude where he will assuage, without restraint, his
appetite for existing, which is his only reason for
existence.
But at this extremity nothing else is possible but death or
resurrection.
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