Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
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.
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. - Emile M. Cioran
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. - Emile M. Cioran
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
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.
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.
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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