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You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on freedom

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 17

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