Everyone is mistaken, everyone lives in illusion. At best, … - Emil Cioran

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Everyone is mistaken, everyone lives in illusion. At best, we can admit a scale of fictions, a hierarchy of unrealities, giving preference to one rather than to another; but to choose, no, definitely not that...

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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One disgust, then another — to the point of losing the use of speech and even of the mind...The greatest exploit of my life is to be still alive.

You have dreamed of setting the world ablaze, and you have not even managed to communicate your fire to words, to light up a single one!

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

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