All morning, I did nothing but repeat: "Man is an abyss, ma… - Emil Cioran

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All morning, I did nothing but repeat: "Man is an abyss, man is an abyss." — I could not, alas, find anything better.

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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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

It is debasing to die the way one does; it is intolerable to be exposed to an end over which we have no control, an end which lies in wait for us, overthrows us, casts us into the unnameable.

The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.

All morning, I did nothing but repeat: "Man is an abyss, man is an abyss." — I could not, alas, find anything better. - Emil Cioran

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