Who was Emil Cioran?
Emil Cioran was born and raised in Romania in the early 20th century. However, he ended up spending the largest part of his beautifully miserable existence in Paris.
Let’s cut directly through the bullshit if we are going to fully honor Cioran’s legacy.
Who was Emil Cioran? A real philosopher; the Theorist of Suicide; Nietzsche in reverse; "the son of Schopenhauer"; a serious déconneur; the master of the deadly aphorism; a destroyer of illusions; a predisposed provocateur; the Mike Tyson of prose; the writer with the sharp bayonet; the most "dangerous" thinker of the 20th century; one of the foremost moralists of all time; an obsessional and compulsive truth-seeker; the man who was saved by Bach and Dostoevsky; the lone wolf of Odéon; a dud; a never-launched-rocket; a lion without appetite; a failed fire; a resigned soul; a mind supremely raffiné; a friendly and compassionate misanthrope; a true human being; an anti-prolix; a laconic maniac; a lifelong insomniac; a lazy Sage; the prophet of the apocalypse; the apostle of Absurdity; the messiah of nothingness; an existential wreck; an evolutionary aberration; nay, a metaphysical anomaly. In sum, a Miracle.
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”