Quote #133
When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.
More from Emile Cioran
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- Characteristic of sickness: to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.
- The feeling of being the thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity...
- I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
- He who hates himself is not humble.
- To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
- There was a time when time did not yet exist... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
- What are you waiting for in order to give up?