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The Temptation to Exist

This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. <B

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“We are all violent ones, the enraged, who, having lost the key to quietude, have access only to the secrets of laceration.”

— E. M. Cioran, amazon.com

Tagged: The Killer In You Is The Killer In Me, Inherent Violence of Life, Lost Eden, Violence

“Almost all our discovers are due to our violences, to the exacerbation of our instability.”

— E. M. Cioran, amazon.com

Tagged: Obscure First Lines