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Something wrong?A philosopher who made despair an art form. Cioran wrote in aphorisms so precise they cut - on suffering, decay, the void where meaning should be. He never tried to console you.
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, I ask myself; Why is it that only some people suffer? Why are only some selected from the ranks of normal people and put on the torture rack?
The most interesting aspect of suffering is the sufferer's belief in its absoluteness. He believes he has a monopoly on suffering.
maybe suffering has no more justification than life.
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Born in Romania in 1911, Emil Cioran published early work in his native language before moving to Paris's Latin Quarter in 1937. He stayed. The city became his permanent home, where he lived quietly with his partner, Simone Boué, and switched to writing in French. His essays and aphorisms circled the same dark ground: suffering, nihilism, the slow rot of existence. The style was spare, the pessimism total. He published steadily, built a cult readership, and never softened the outlook. He died in Paris in 1995, having spent nearly six decades in the same neighborhood, refining his case against hope.
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