“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
Variant: I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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