Eternity is absence.
Emil Cioran
2021
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Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.
Emil Cioran
2021
To think many have succeeded in dying.
Emil Cioran
2021
Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don’t know, and we don’t really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.
Emil Cioran
2021
Pale Angel II
You went with me to take photos on that cold November morning
The shutter snapped heavily at static statues
Apollonian figures on frozen ground
As you exhaled your breath marked the air
Your skin was as white as the frost
And there you stood
My pale angel.
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
Emil Cioran
2021
To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I’d welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran
2015 edited 2021
There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2021
How I wish I didn’t know anything about myself and this world!
Emil Cioran
Undated
As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.
Emil Cioran
2021
Parallel Aesthetics 