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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. |
| 죽음은 완성의 단계이다. 죽음에 이르는 운명의 범위 내에서 유일한 것이다 |
| 죽음은, 현재로써 인생의 가장 실제적인 발견이다 |
| 참다운 도덕적 우아함은 승리를 패배로 위장하는 기술에 있다 |
| 철저히 아무 것도 깊이 생각하지 않을 때에만 우리는 신념을 갖게 된다. |