We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. ✨ H…

Emile M. Cioran
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We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. ✨ Anathemas and Admirations. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.
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) … ▶
Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world. ✨ A Short History of Decay. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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