“The need to devour oneself absolves one of the need to believe.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Source: A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
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