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The Book of Disquiet
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Emil M. Cioran
“A human being possessed by a belief and not eager to pass it on to others is a phenomenon alien to the earth, where our mania for salvation makes life unbreathable... Everyone trying to remedy everyone's life. Society- an inferno of saviors!”
Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

Emil M. Cioran
“Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.”
Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

Emil M. Cioran
“Existing is plagiarism.”
Emil Cioran

Emil M. Cioran
“In the gamut of creatures, only man inspires a sustained disgust.”
Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

Emil M. Cioran
“The sages of antiquity, who put themselves to death as proof of their maturity, had created a discipline of suicide which the moderns have unlearned. Doomed to an uninspired agony, we are neither authors of our extremities nor arbiters of our adieux; the end is no longer our end: we lack the excellence of a unique initiative – by which we might ransom an insipid and talentless life, as we like the sublime cynicism, the ancient splendour of an art of dying. Habitués of despair, complacent corpses, we all outlive ourselves and die only to fulfil a futile formality. It is as if our life were attached to itself only to postpone the moment when we could get rid of it.”
Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

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