If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would … - Emil Cioran

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If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.

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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In order to conceive, and to steep ourselves in, unreality, we must have it constantly present to our minds. The day we feel it, see it, everything becomes unreal, except that unreality which alone makes existence tolerable.

The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds. - Emil Cioran

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