Emil Cioran Quote

Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.


The Trouble With Being Born (1973)


Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment,...

Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment,...

Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment,...

Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment,...