Quote #29
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
More from Emile Cioran
- Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
- Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.
- Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.
- Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
- We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
- By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
- Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
- Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.