Emil Cioran - The Trouble with Being Born (1973) - Chapter 2

Trans. Richard Howard (1976). Originally published as De l’inconvénient d’être né (1973).
Featuring: Nietzsche, Shankara, Socrates, Teresa of Ávila, Epicurus, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Emily Brontë, Plotinus, Porphyry.
'More than once, I have managed to leave my room, for if I had stayed there I could not be sure of being able to resist sudden resolution. The street is more reassuring, you think less about yourself there, there everything weakens and wilts, beginning with your own confusion.'

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