Long before turning into a roughed-up orientalist, explorer and buddhist mystic, Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969) was a Parisian opera singer and writer. But even in her youth, she was already dealing with nothingness and its infinite freedom, via Stirner's anarchism. Thus she wrote on her essay Pour la vie, which was rejected by various editors:
Obedience is a species of death. Every instant a man surrenders to a foreign will, it is an instant torn out from his own existence.
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