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{ 2008 01 23 }

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.

Posted by publisher on Wednesday, January 23, 2008, at 4:43 pm. Filed under aphorisms, featured writers. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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