“How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”
— Ayn Rand, book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
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