“"I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside." This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.”

— Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

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