One of the biggest paradoxes of our world: memories vanish … - Emil Cioran

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One of the biggest paradoxes of our world: memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

Emil Cioran

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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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Even more than in a poem, it is the aphorism that the word is god.

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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

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