inf-site/quotes/4ea2526a-8c89-4468-97e4-f261810752e7

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?"
id: 4ea2526a-8c89-4468-97e4-f261810752e7