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Quote by Emile M. Cioran

“Try to be free: you will die of hunger.”

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Emile M. Cioran was a Romanian-born French philosopher known for his pessimistic and existentialist views. His works deeply explored the essence of human existence, suffering, and nihilism. more

“Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.”

Moments Heaven Love Is Attention Produce Tears Solitude Casts Variety Suspects Ecstasy Sublime Rivals Fatigue Transport Rapture Intoxication Physiology Ardor Glands Sublimity

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”

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Book:All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms