“We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.”
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
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Emil M. Cioran 531
Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes

“Just as we suffer from excess in all things, so we suffer from excess in literature; thus we learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture room.”
Quemadmodum omnium rerum, sic litterarum quoque intemperantia laboramus: non vitae sed scholae discimus.
Alternate translation: Not for life, but for school do we learn. (translator unknown)
Alternate translation: We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life. (translator unknown).
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CVI: On the corporeality of virtue, Line 12

Section 7 : Spiritual Progress
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Three, Brains Changing, Minds Changing

Source: Belonging: A Culture of Place
Bruce Bartlett, "Keynesian Policy and Development Economics" in Dissent on Keynes (1992).
1990s