"However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life."

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For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

— Emile M. Cioran