E. Armand, “Plan for an Anarchist Individualist International” (1927)
To spend time with anarchists, just to find oneself as miserable as among the archists—the game is not worth the candle…
To spend time with anarchists, just to be smothered in an atmosphere of intellectual mutilation or a crippling of the life of the senses—that is truly not worth the trouble.
And an Anarchist Individualist International is only possible if those who form it possess first of all have a mentality and habits of their own, very much of their own, released from concerns about experimentation, freed from the fear of living. […]