free oneself

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Vain are great efforts to free oneself from this fatal environment, from the heritage of fear, from the circle in which we are forced to move, until at last comes death.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances

A connection of the heart becomes then a veritable torment, from which it is desirable to free oneself as quickly as possible.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell

Now, when a thought has become an obsession, there is practically only one way to free oneself from it, and that is by speech.

From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie

From demons, I know, it is scarce possible to free oneself.

From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard)

One unacquainted with the course of the duties of Emancipation revolves like a wheel between birth and death, unable to free oneself from that fate.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan