“When we are young, we take a certain pleasure in our infirmities. They seem so new, so rich! With age, they no longer surprise us, we know them too well. Now, without anything unexpected in them, they do not deserve to be endured.”Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being BornThe Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations.”Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being BornThe Trouble With Being Born (1973)