Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world. ✨ A Shor…

Emile M. Cioran
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Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world. ✨ A Short History of Decay. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.
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The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
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 … ▶
Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others. ✨ Emile … ▶

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world. ✨ A Short History of Decay. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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