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“Everything is possible, and yet nothing is. All is permitted, and yet again, nothing. No matter whi

“Everything is possible, and yet nothing is. All is permitted, and yet again, nothing. No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it’s all the same whether you cry or remain silent. There is an explanation for everything, and yet there is none. Everything is both real and unreal, normal and absurd, splendid and insipid. There is nothing worth more than anything else, nor any idea better than any other. Why grow sad from one’s sadness and delight in one’s joy? What does it matter whether our tears come from pleasure or pain? Love your unhappiness and hate your happiness, mix everything up, scramble it all! Be a snowflake dancing in the air, a flower floating downstream! Have courage when you don’t need to, and be a coward when you must be brave! Who knows? You may still be a winner! And if you lose, does it really matter? Is there anything to win in this world? All gain is loss, all loss is gain. Why always expect a definite stance, clear ideas, meaningful words? I feel as if I should spout fire in response to all the questions which were ever put, or not put, to me.”

- Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair(1934).

Art:  Léon Spilliaert, Dike and Beach (1907).


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“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters n

“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.”

- Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

Art: Edward Hopper - Office in a Small City, 1953. 71 x 102 cm. Oil on canvas.


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“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never

“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this, and I do not. Everything is unique and insignificant.”

- Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

Art:  Caspar David Friedrich. The Monk by the Sea, 1810.


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“Non sono mai a mio agio nell’immediato, mi seduce solo quello che mi precede, quello che mi allontana da qui, gli istanti innumerabili in cui non fui: il non-nato.”

Emil Cioran, L’inconveniente di essere nati

“Noi non corriamo verso la morte, fuggiamo la catastrofe della nascita, ci affanniamo, superstiti che cercano di dimenticarla.”

Emil Cioran, L’inconveniente di essere nati

“Esiste una conoscenza che toglie peso e portata a quello che di fa — e per la quale tutto è provo di fondamento tranne essa medesima. Pura al punto da aborrire perfino l’idea di oggetto, traduce quel sapere estremo secondo il quale fare o non fare un atto è la stessa cosa, e a cui si associa una soddisfazione altrettanto estrema: il poter ripetere, a ogni incontro, che nessuno dei gesti da noi compiuti merita la nostra adesione, che niente è avvalorato da una qualche traccia di sostanza, che la <<realtà>> è dell’ordine dell’insensato. Una tale conoscenza meriterebbe di essere definita postuma: opera infatti come se chi conosce fosse vivo e non vivo, essere e memoria di essere. È già passato dice costui di tutto ciò che compie, nell’istante stesso dell’atto, che viene così destituito per sempre di presente.”

Emil Cioran, L’inconveniente di essere nati

I’m sitting in a broken down delivery truck, waiting for a tow, looking at pictures of some of my books, and wanting to be home

“Dopo certe esperienze si dovrebbe cambiare nome, dato che non si è più gli stessi.”


(Emil Cioran)

shout out to Juno Steel, if you studied philosophy you would’ve loved Emil Cioran

“I realized that in moments of great despair philosophy is no help at all, that it holds absolutely no answers,” writes Cioran.

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