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A review by gjram
The Trouble with Being Born by E.M. Cioran
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
A terrible book I will deeply consider for the rest of my life.
"I am nothing, obviously, but since for so long I wanted to be something, I fail to smother that aspiration, that will: It exists because it has existed, it belabours me and prevails, though I reject it."
" Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must
"I am nothing, obviously, but since for so long I wanted to be something, I fail to smother that aspiration, that will: It exists because it has existed, it belabours me and prevails, though I reject it."
" Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must
afflict those who know they no longer remember anything. But something
tells me that after a certain time a secret joy possesses them, a joy they would not agree to trade for any of their memories, even the most stirring..."