Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make … - Emil Cioran

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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Emil Cioran

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Emil Cioran (8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist whose work is known for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, which frequently engages with issues of suffering, decay, and nihilism.

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Alternative Names: Emil Mihai Cioran • Emil-Michel Cioran

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That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.

The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. - Emil Cioran

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