Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

Died: June 20, 1995, Paris, France Website Facebook X/Twitter

Emil Cioran was a Romanian philosopher and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. He frequently engages with issues of suffering, decay, and nihilism.

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Harmonic Happiness

by Emil Cioran and Bernard Williams in Figures of Speech

Ulcerated and overrated, happiness is subjective and derived, in principle forme, from pleasure and pain. Inflammed and entitled, this responsion is entitled without the pejorative connotation. Harmonic? Well, that's another story, a narrative within a narrative. 

Still-Born Birth

by Emily Dickinson and others in Figures of Speech

This revival is a social affair, falling from the womb of your soul. With an everlasting half-life of contradictory utterance, the transmissibility of your words is viral at times, at least that's the story we tell ourselves. Disappointment is a daily occurrence. 

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