For me, it has been my reading of fiction far removed from political considerations that evoked in me a sense of personal freedom or the possibilities of escaping the South.

在读小说时,我会将一切抛诸脑后,这种精神上的解放让我,对逃往南方。

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His in other words seems to be a highly personal in many ways highly individual quest for self perfection and not a doctrine about the value of freedom of speech in general.

换言之，他崇高的个人,从许多层面来看，是他崇高的个人,追求本身完美，而非关一般,言论自由价值的学说。

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