The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. (Emil Cioran)

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Emil Cioran

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