If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination…

Emile M. Cioran
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If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.
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