[Ezra is, in turn, also quiet for a long moment, trying to digest when...well, honestly, not a long speech for Maul -

But he sincerely believes Maul is digging down to pull out things he's been avoiding, so in this sense, that was a lot of words.

He replies, simply, slow but mostly even in tone-]

It would have been Anakin. Or if not him, someone else he thought he could get some new advantage out of. No matter what, he wouldn't have given - maybe he didn't promise things outright, but I'm sure he implied them. He never for one minute wanted you to be...a person, actual and whole.

He wouldn't have tolerated at his side, someone he believed could come out from his shadow, be his equal, or surpass him.

I think...if you keep looking, really looking, at yourself and everything around you, and be honest with yourself about what you see, you may find that, in fact, you can be all those things. Complete without him, and greater than him. Not in the way of the Sith, I suppose. But in your own way.

[Ezra believes Maul is all those things already - a whole person who isn't beholden to Sidious. But he needs time to see it.]