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E. M. Cioran: Why Write

“The more injured you are by time, the more you seek to escape it. To write a faultless page, or only a sentence, raises you above becoming and its corruptions. You transcend death by the pursuit of the indestructible in speech….”
- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, tr. Richard Howard. © Arcade Publishing, 1998.

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The Gist of It:

Brutal Truths, Bitter Wisdom, Gallows Humor
The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness. — Bull Durham, screenplay by Ron Shelton
- You are free and that is why you are lost.
- In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
— Franz Kafka
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across [...]

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