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All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast by E.M. Cioran

reimeoww's review against another edition

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3.0

مشاعري متخالطة نحو الكتاب ولكن اعجبني نوعًا ما.

vxmlie's review against another edition

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challenging dark funny reflective fast-paced

alcyonien's review against another edition

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medium-paced

4.0

anders_t_powell's review against another edition

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challenging dark funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

Very, very funny, but just as edgy. The translation is pretty neat.

nighteyes82's review against another edition

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5.0

I lost count on how many time I read this book. I just loveeeee it.

briancrandall's review against another edition

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5.0

Erect I make a resolution; prone I revoke it. [47]

In the future, if humanity is to begin again, it will do so with its failures, with the Mongols of the entire globe, with the dregs of the continents; a parody civilization will appear which those who produced the real one will observe quite impotent, ashamed, prostrate, in order to take refuge, ultimately, in an idiocy where they will forget the glamour of their disasters. [67]

No one should try to live if he has not completed his training as a victim. [80]

I have so fondled the notion of fatality, nourished it at the cost of such great sacrifices, that it has finally made itself incarnate: once an abstraction, here it is, palpitating before me and crushing me with all the life I have given it. [90]

Had Noah possessed the gift of foreseeing the future, there is not a doubt in the world he would have scuttled the ark. [121]

To make our way from the caves to the salons required a considerable amount of time; will we take as long to cover the path back or will we take shortcuts? [127]

emanaz22's review against another edition

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3.0

أفضل طريقة للابتعاد عن الآخرين تتمثّل في أن ندعوهم إلى الاحتفال بهزائمنا، بعد ذلك، نحن على يقين من أنّنا سنكرههم إلى آخر رمق في حياتنا.

lorena_balan's review against another edition

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dark reflective medium-paced

4.5

esraa_gibreen's review against another edition

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3.0

شذرات سوداوية ولا تخلو من الظُرف في بعض الأحيان.

breadandmushrooms's review against another edition

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reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.75