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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.

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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

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De l'inconvénient d'être né : épisode • 5/8 du podcast Emil Cioran, désespérément

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-chemins-de-la-philosophie/de-l-inconvenient-d-etre-ne-5611606 #emilcioran

Serious idleness

It seems I run from idleness. I’m fond of saying I should come with a warning—the kind one finds on the back of the driver’s-side sun-visor in a car: “Does not idle well.” It takes concerted effort for me to idle, and yet I cannot discern what it is that makes me run from idleness. But this guy? He seems to have gone all in…

‘Most of the time I don’t do anything. I am the idlest man in Paris … the only one who does less than I do is a whore without clients.’

Cioran may have been joking, but his idleness was serious business. It was an arduous lifetime project, into which he put his best efforts and which he served with complete dedication.

~ Costica Bradatan from, Learning to be a loser

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Honestly? My first thought was how does such a person support themselves? (They don’t. Others do.) After dialing down my snark, I was left noticing that there’s a sharp polarization to elevate idleness to a virtue, or to revile it as glorified laziness. Nonetheless, I must admit that to be idle requires me to first say ‘no’ to many ideas, things and opportunities. So maybe that’s the key: To be self-aware enough to thread my way between those two poles?

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#EmilCioran: "Destruction and explosion of syntax, victory of ambiguity and approximation. All very well. But just try to draw up a will, and you'll see if the defunct rigor was so contemptible" (The Trouble with Being Born, p. 153).

#EmilCioran: Philosophical jargon is "a pseudo-language which, attempting to reflect ideas, merely assumes a contour at their expense, merely denatures and darkens them, merely calls attention to itself" (The Trouble with Being Born, p. 48).