“It is debasing to die the way one does; it is intolerable to be exposed to an end over which we have no control, an end which lies in wait for us, overthrows us, casts us into the unnameable. ”

— Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

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