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    Emil Mihai Cioran (Romanian: [eˈmil tʃoˈran] ; French: [emil sjɔʁɑ̃]; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who...
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  • systematic critique of philosophical optimism. Subsequent thinkers, such as Emil Cioran and David Benatar, further developed pessimistic thought and challenged...
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  • militant Emil Cedercreutz (1879–1949), Finnish sculptor Emil Chuprenski (born 1960), Bulgarian boxer Emil Cioran (1911–1995), French-Romanian writer Emil Constantinescu...
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  • On the Heights of Despair (category Works by Emil Cioran)
    written by Emil Cioran, published in 1934 as his first book. It consists of several brief reflections on negative themes which later permeated Cioran's work...
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  • A Short History of Decay (book) (category Works by Emil Cioran)
    History of Decay is a 1949 philosophical book by Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, his first work written in French. Nihilistic in tone, the book consists...
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    21st authors who espoused philosophically pessimistic views include Emil Cioran, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Eugene Thacker, Thomas Ligotti, David Benatar,...
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  • The Trouble with Being Born (book) (category Works by Emil Cioran)
    l'inconvénient d'être né) is a 1973 philosophy book by Romanian author Emil Cioran. The book is presented as a series of aphorisms, meditating primarily...
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  • All Gall is Divided (category Works by Emil Cioran)
    literally "Syllogisms of Bitterness") is a French philosophical book by Emil Cioran. Originally published in 1952, it was translated into English in 1999...
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    parallel with the essays of another of Ionescu's disciples, Emil Cioran, while noting that Cioran's were "of a more exulted tone and written in the aphoristic...
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  • Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life) F. H. Bradley Malcolm de Chazal Emil Cioran Arkady Davidowitz Desiderius Erasmus Gustave Flaubert (Dictionary of...
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