(…) But, besides all this, death is the great opportunity no longer to be I; to him who uses it. During life the will of man is without freedom; his actions takes place with necessity upon the basis of his unalterable character in the chain of motives. But everyone remembers much that he has done, and on account of which he is by no means satisfied with himself. If now he were to go on living, he would go on acting in the same way, on account of the unalterable nature of his character. Accordingly he must cease to be what he is in order to be able to arise out of the germ of his nature as a new and different being. Therefore death looses those bonds; the will again becomes free; for freedom lies in the Esse, not in the Operari (…)