“Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.”

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

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