Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it …

Emile M. Cioran
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Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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