“The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.”

— Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

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