I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right… — Emil Cioran
I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide.
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