“Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.””

— Ernst Jünger , book Eumeswil

Eumeswil (1977)

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German writer 1895–1998

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