A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. – 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
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. – E.M. Cioran
How easy it is to be “deep”: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. – E.M. Cioran
The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago…. I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking. – Henry G. Bohn, A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets, 1881