Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emile M. Cioran
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any mot … ▶
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinar … ▶
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived. ✨ Drawn and Quartered. Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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