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Emil Mihai Cioran (Romanian: [eˈmil tʃoˈran] ⓘ, French: [emil sjɔʁɑ̃]; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French.
2419 quotes from Emil M. Cioran: 'It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.', 'A book is a suicide postponed.', and 'Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists.
Nov 28, 2016 · Emil Cioran (1911–1995) was a Romanian-born French philosopher and author of some two dozen books of savage, unsettling beauty.
Jun 20, 1995 · About Emil M. Cioran: Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Roman...
Feb 18, 2019 · That is what the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran (April 8, 1911–June 20, 1995) — whom Susan Sontag celebrated as one of the most lucid, powerful, and nuanced thinkers of the twentieth century, a writer concerned with “consciousness tuned to the highest pitch of refinement” — explores in a passage from his arrestingly titled and ...
Feb 21, 2020 · In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience.
Dec 17, 2023 · Emil Cioran, son of an Orthodox priest, was a Romanian-French writer and philosopher born in a Transylvanian mountain village in Romanian.
Discover Emile M. Cioran famous and rare quotes. Share Emile M. Cioran quotations about suffering, solitude and madness. "Once you see that everything is unreal, you..."
Jun 22, 1995 · E. M. Cioran, a Romanian-born writer known for his essays on philosophy and culture and his emphasis on despair, emptiness and death, died on Tuesday in the Broca Hospital in Paris.
Emil Cioran published during his lifetime sixteen books, the first six in his native Romanian, the other ten in French. He was awarded many literary prizes (including Rivarol, Saint-Beuve, Combat and Nimier); he accepted only one, the Rivarol Prize, for the first book he wrote in French, Précis de décomposition.
