I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away. - Emil Cioran

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I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

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About Emil Cioran

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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The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.

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