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Emil Cioran on Memory

1911–1995 France

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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

A Short History of Decay (1949)

If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

One of the biggest paradoxes of our world: memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emil Cioran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.