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
How easy it is to be “deep”: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. – E.M. Cioran
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. – E.M. Cioran
Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say…. Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles…. I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee…. I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be. – John Muir, from a letter to Jeanne C. Carr, circa autumn 1870, ©1984 Muir-H