“Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”
Source: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms
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