"The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."
-Emile M. Cioran
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"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.“
-Emile M. Cioran
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