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Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)
“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.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 17
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