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Emil Cioran (1911 - 1995)
He was born in Rasinari, Romania and educated at Bucharest University. A scholarship from the French Institute in Bucharest brought him in 1937 to Paris.
Emil Cioran's works constitute what the American novelist and critic William Gass has called "a philosophical romance on modern themes of alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as a agony, reason as disease. "His friend Samuel Beckett, another exile in Paris, was one of many who helped Cioran out financially and was repaid by his advice.

a soles te conviccions qui no ha profundisat gens
la conversacio es profitosa a soles entre esperits consagrats a consolidar les propies incertees
la mort és un estat de perfecció, l\'únic a l\'abast d\'un mortal
la mort és, fins ara, el més sòlid que ha inventat la vida
l\'unica manera de salvaguardar la soletat es ferir a tot lo mon, començant per aquells als que amem
no habitem en un país, habitem en una llengua
totes les anomalies ens seduïxen; en primer lloc la vida, anomalia per excelencia
una pàtria és un soporífic per a cada instant. No sabríem envejar -o compadir- prou els jueus per no tindre cap o per no tindre-les mes que provisionals, començant per Israel