If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned-a saint or a corpse.
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Romanian Language: a mixture of sun and dung with all its nostalgic ugliness, language of an accession to disaster.
Permalink to quote #52 To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
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