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
How easy it is to be “deep”: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. – E.M. Cioran
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! – E.M. Cioran
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence. – James Boswell, “The Hypochondriack,” No.XXII, 1779