We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Emile M. CioranThinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
Emile M. CioranThe only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Emile M. Cioran