“At the edge of life you feel that you are no longer master of the life within you, that subjectivity is an illusion, and that uncontrollable forces are seething inside you, evolving with no relation to a personal center or a definite, individual rhythm.”

On the Heights of Despair (1934), essay 2 - On not wanting to live

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

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