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“What do you do from morning to night?"

"I endure myself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“لا شيء يثبت أننا أكثر من لا شيء.”
― Emil Cioran

“I'll never be happy, how can you love me, I'm awful, I'm covered with spiders, I'm doomed.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Friends and enemies were the same people, just time and context told you who was who at any given moment.”
― Bert-Oliver Boehmer, Three Immortals