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
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
Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. – John Donne