Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. (Emil Cioran)

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

Emil Cioran

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