Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at bein…

Emile M. Cioran
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Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats. ✨ Drawn and Quartered. Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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