1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
E. M. Cioran – [Socializing and Socialism]
What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
E. M. Cioran – [Freedom]
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
E. M. Cioran – [Tragedies]
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
E. M. Cioran – [Salvation]
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