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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimis

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist –a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist –only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. – E. M. Cioran

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