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cioran

I'm simply an accident.

About Me

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? No longer wanting to be a man... dreaming of another form of failure.

My Interests

Alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as an agony, reason as disease.

I'd like to meet:

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

Music:

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Books:

We must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

My Blog

silence

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence...
Posted by cioran on Sat, 27 May 2006 07:58:00 PST

work

Through work, man has moved from subject to object; in other words, he has become a deficient animal who has betrayed his origins. Instead of living for himself - not selfishly but growing spiritually...
Posted by cioran on Mon, 15 May 2006 07:46:00 PST

suffering

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact t...
Posted by cioran on Sat, 13 May 2006 11:19:00 PST

music

Only music gives definitive answers.
Posted by cioran on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:58:00 PST

conciousness

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Posted by cioran on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:11:00 PST

hope

Hope is the normal form of delirium.
Posted by cioran on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:07:00 PST

god

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
Posted by cioran on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 04:52:00 PST

golden rule

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Posted by cioran on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:17:00 PST