Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegr… - Emil Cioran

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Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.

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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When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death's prisoner.

Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul. - Emil Cioran

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