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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.102, Open Road Media
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.