Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do …

Emile M. Cioran
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Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
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Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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