“As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.”

—  Emil M. Cioran , book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

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