Detachment from the world as an attachment to the ego... Who can realize the detachment in which you are as far away from yourself as you are from the world? (Emil Cioran)

Detachment from the world as an attachment to the ego... Who can realize the detachment in which you are as far away from yourself as you are from the world?

Emil Cioran

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