Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. ✨ …

Emile M. Cioran
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Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1999). All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms, p.26, Arcade Publishing
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Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1999). All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms, p.26, Arcade Publishing

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