“I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.”

—  Emil M. Cioran , book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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