“I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.”

— Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

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