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
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
Theres definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more its rewarded. – Jon Ronson