# Quote — Steven Erikson, House of Chains

> Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.

- Author: [Steven Erikson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson.md)
- Book: [House of Chains](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/house-of-chains.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/house-of-chains/not-that-freedom

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> With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

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> But now Apsalar was trying to tell him that competence was not justification. That necessity demanded its own path and there was no virtue to be found at its heart.

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