Quote #34

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void.

More from Emile Cioran

  1. Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
  2. Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
  3. By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
  4. We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
  5. Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
  6. So long as man is protected by madness, he functions, and flourishes.
  7. Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.
  8. The universal view melts things into a blur.

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