“The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
“Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
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