Quotation by E.M. Cioran

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
E.M. Cioran (b. 1911), Rumanian–born French philosopher. The Temptation to Exist, title essay (1956).
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