“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.
“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.