Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: The Fall Into Time (1964), p. 120, first American edition (1970)
“Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,
And Death glares grim in many a form.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 55
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