At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. Thi…

Emile M. Cioran
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At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. ✨ The New Gods. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.
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At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books

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