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The word "freedom" means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word "order." Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

Prince Metternich

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Metternich, Klemens von. Mein Politisches Testament [My Political Testament]. c. 1880.

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Trembled to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Herman Melville

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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Melville, Herman. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852, bk. 4, ch. 2.

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Melville, Herman. Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, edited by Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinstein. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, bk. 4, ch. 2.

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