“Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.”
Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
“Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.”
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