Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

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• Emil Cioran:

  We inhabit a language rather than a country.

• Emil Cioran:

  I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

• Emil Cioran:

  I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

• Emil Cioran:

  The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

• Emil Cioran:

  Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

• Emil Cioran:

  Word - that invisible dagger.

• Emil Cioran:

  Under each formula lies a corpse.

• Emil Cioran:

  Our first intuitions are the true ones.

• Emil Cioran:

  The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

• Emil Cioran:

  Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.