“Nothing is a better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.”

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

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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