How easy it is to be “deep”: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. – E.M. Cioran
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. – E.M. Cioran
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. – E.M. Cioran
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. – E.M. Cioran
Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919