A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us ba…

Emile M. Cioran
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ✨ Loneliness and Politics with E. M. Cioran. TinHouse interview, tinhouse.com. August 10, 2017.
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Tears do not burn except in solitude. ✨ On the Heights of Despair. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.
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. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976) … ▶
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
What are you waiting for in order to give up? ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts. ✨ Drawn and Quartered. Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ✨ Loneliness and Politics with E. M. Cioran. TinHouse interview, tinhouse.com. August 10, 2017.

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