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One of the greatest dangers in life is that we give our heart to something or someone and then become enslaved by it, or it. If we never lose our desire to be free, we will never be free. If we always want to be free, we can be free. But one must attain a state where they stop desiring to be free and live in a state of freedom, without any desire for freedom to end at all.
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