To think is to submit to the whims and commands of an uncer… - Emil Cioran

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To think is to submit to the whims and commands of an uncertain health.

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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Buddhism calls anger "corruption of the mind," Manicheism "root of the tree of death." I know this, but what good does it do me to know?

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique — and insignificant.

After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?

To think is to submit to the whims and commands of an uncertain health. - Emil Cioran

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