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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

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“There exists, I grant you, a clinical depression, upon which certain remedies occasionally have effect; but there exists another kind, a melancholy underlying our very outbursts of gaiety and accompanying us everywhere, without leaving us alone for a single moment. And there is nothing that can rid us of this lethal omnipresence: the self forever confronting itself. – Cioran, E. (1986). Aveux et anathèmes. (pp. 110)”

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