"Life and liberty are parts of each other and they are linked to our capacity of awareness."

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“If we discover that religious morality was a result of historical misunderstanding, then we will need to free this morality from the prison of human virtue.”

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“No doubts life cannot be limited to narrow concepts nor to religious and divine norms; it is extended to the depths of nature and begins first by unveiling what we ignore.”

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