“In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.”  ― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning

It is startling to experience, time and time again, the most precise expression of one’s own most private thoughts in the writings of the great Romanian existentialist. Some people call