Allright, budding writers... Defend yourself against THIS! C

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Illness so weak as to die with a gust of breath is illness not worth protecting, and failure that can be redeemed is not real failure; as for being not yourself, what else could you be?

Everyone else is his competition. Duh.

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The important part, when attempting to fail, is to be not too successful.

is cioran a romanian name? don't they end in U

I dont know who he is but I doubt he wrote anything noteworthy with that attitude

>>8272604
it is, and not necessarily

>>8272606
Then read him, and see if your opinion changes

>>8272604
Yep, and it is an archaic word meaning thief. It's pronounced Cho-Rhan, but the French tend to pronounce it Sioren or something like that.

>>8271361
I know there are people like in this in academia and they are mostly all the most insufferable cunts in their fields

cioran, that guy who went on and on about how much life sucks and then lived till the ripe old age of 84

talk about living your philosophy amirite?

>>8272979
If you had actually read him, you would see that he lived his philosophy.

>>8272984
i've read him

>>8272979

You make a very good point which I've spent time thinking about. But OTOH, I personally like the mental image of the guy who lived in a hovel all that time, knowing all the while that he had suicide in his back pocket if it got too unpleasant.

>>8272542

The guy was never a high-powered academic or businessman, etc, so although you are right to sniff some bullshit about his conceit, he at least has going for him that he was simply an edgy writer and little more. Cioran wasn't competing for much, although he did have a gf and a place in Paris, and declined various literary awards.

>>8272992
>But OTOH, I personally like the mental image of the guy who lived in a hovel all that time, knowing all the while that he had suicide in his back pocket if it got too unpleasant.

the image is charming to be sure, but he doesn't see anything positive about life, it is all negative and all a horrible mistake, so his books always just struck me as boring posturing

>>8273004
you haven't read him. He leaves very positive reviews of such activities as complaining, spitting bile, wallowing in total failure, or listening to music

Sounds like he'd be into bug chasing nowadays.

>>8273004

This is a tenable view, but FWIW Cioran insisted that the point of writing books for him was not to "win an argument", or to "build a system", but instead simply as a form of therapy. It seems to have helped him somehow.

I reject this DO IT FAGGOT mentality that some people have when nihilists don't take their bit to its logical conclusion. It /will/ be taken to its logical conclusion in any event, whether at age 84, or sooner. Also, it's clear that Cioran took pleasure out of a few things in life - he was a normie, ffs. He had a gf.

>>8273046

The whole fetish does speak to Cioran's half-hearted death wish, but in the west, where it truly is a gay disease, Cioran would need to have had some homosexual inclination, which he did not. Indeed, the whole end of his life was exactly that 15-year period ( ~1980~1995) when AIDS exploded, and remained effectively a death sentence. He lived in Paris. Cioran could have gotten himself pozzed up anytime he wanted, had he been so inclined. Could have opened his wrists at any moment, found just the right overhang at any time...

>>8273029
fanboy detected.

>>8274161
>reading an author's book instead of the wikipedia article
>fanboy
well it's the 21st century, you must be right