I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. - Emile M. Cioran
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
- Emile M. Cioran
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. - Emile M. Cioran
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. - Emile M. Cioran
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. - Emile M. Cioran
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. - Emile M. Cioran
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself. - Emile M. Cioran
What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.
The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief. - Emile M. Cioran
The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. - Emile M. Cioran
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to d… - Emile M. Cioran
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to d…
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