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Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran was a philosopher who lived in Romania. He wrote books that talked about the sadness of life and how we should accept that we can never really be happy or fulfilled. He argued that we should accept this sadness and use creative thinking to make life more enjoyable. Cioran's writing is full of sarcasm, humor and irony, and he was an important figure in the French philosophical world.