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Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

Wallace Stevens
Suicide, Freedom, Night
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.292, Vintage
Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.