What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long,…

Emile M. Cioran
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books

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