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I know why I am sad, but I do not know why I am melancholy.
— Jan 03, 2026 08:50PM
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The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
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How does the instant become a gate to eternity? A sense of becoming results from the moment’s insufficiency and relativity: those with a keen consciousness of temporality live every moment thinking of the next one. Eternity can be attained only if there are no connections, if one lives the instant totally and absolutely.
— Jan 06, 2026 08:49PM
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Women are safe on the spiritual plane because in them the dualism between life and the spirit is less intense than in men. A graceful sense of existence does not lead to metaphysical revelations, to a vision of truth, to the sense of an ending which poisons every moment of life.
Come on Cioran ! 🙃😑
— Jan 05, 2026 08:09PM
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Daisy
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There are men who started in the world of abstract forms and ended in absolute confusion. Therefore they can only philosophize poetically.
— Jan 05, 2026 07:46PM
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There are only two fundamental attitudes: the naive and the heroic. All the others partake of them. One must choose between these two in order to avoid idiocy. But for the man who has come to make such a choice, innocence is no longer an option, so there remains only heroism.
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Nobody who does not love chaos is a creator, and whoever is contemptuous of illness must not speak of the spirit.
— Jan 03, 2026 08:47PM
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One must descend all the circles of an inner hell to turn one’s destiny into a subjective yet universal problem. If you are not burned to ashes, you will then be able to philosophize lyrically.
— Jan 02, 2026 08:42PM
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You do not gain explicit certainty or definite knowledge by it ( ecstasy) ; yet the feeling of essential participation is so intense that it surpasses all limits and categories of common knowledge. A gate opens from this world of toil, pain, and suffering to the inner sanctum of life, where we apprehend a most simple vision in a glorious metaphysical trance.
— Jan 02, 2026 08:22PM
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At the end of all melancholy there is a chance of consolation or resignation. Its esthetic aspect holds possibilities for future harmony which are absent from profound organic sadness. The latter ends in the irrevocable, the former in graceful dream.
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Melancholy states last a long time without reaching any great intensity. Or, rather, their long duration erases from consiousness any original motive, whereas in sadness, which is not long lasting, the motive remains present, generating a self-contained inner tension which will never explode but slowly die in itself. Neither melancholy nor sadness explodes; neither shatters lives.
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only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life’s bare necessities, and to think about such things means not to think at all.( 😅)
I kind of feel bad about it…but I have chuckled so much reading this collection of essays. I guess parts of it sort of remind me of talking to some super intense ( and young ) graduate students.I was laughing at this bit too:
“I'm weary of being a man. If I could, I would renounce my condition on the spot, but what would I become then, an animal?I cannot retrace my steps. Besides, I might become an animal who knows the history of philosophy.”
And this bit:
“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals?”
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It’s a great collection of essays though !
