No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

Emile M. Cioran
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No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
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