Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is t… - Emil Cioran

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Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown.

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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Albert Camus Fernando Pessoa Jean-Paul Sartre Friedrich Nietzsche Henry Miller

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The reasons for persisting in Being seem less and less well founded, and our successors will find it easier than we to be rid of such obstinacy.

Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.

It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.

Life inspires more dread than death — it is life which is the great unknown. - Emil Cioran

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