Emile M. Cioran, 1911 - 1995, A Romanian writer who spent most his life in Paris writing 'a philosophical romance on modern themes of alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease.

His short, biting and often humorous aphorisms of normally no more than three lines reveal more than several volumes of another author's work on the same subject. His essays display the same deadly accuracy and possess a density that can make reading three pages an ordeal.

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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. We derive our vitality from our store of madness. More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran: Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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