Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. ✨ Emile M. …

Emile M. Cioran
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ✨ Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations). Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and … ▶
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime. ✨ Drawn and Quartered. Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books

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