author: Emil Cioran
content: "The 'west' \u2014 what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its\
  \ trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers\
  \ with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this\
  \ that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?"
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