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To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

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You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

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How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

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I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

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I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.

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What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

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Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

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All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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Born: April 8, 1911

Died: June 21, 1995 (aged 84)

Bio: Emil Cioran was a Romanian philosopher and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. Cioran was born in Rășinari, Sibiu County, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time.

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