E.M. Cioran again:

"When one has emerged from the circle of errors and illusions within which actions are performed, taking a position is virtually an impossibility. A minimum of silliness is essential for everything, for affirming and even for denying."

"Whatever puts me at odds with the world is consubstantial with myself. How little I have learned from experience. My dissapointments have always preceded me."

"It is not the violent evils that mark us but the secret, insistent, tolerable ones belonging to our daily round and undermining us as conscientiously as Time itself."

Every sentence is a wound. Cioran admitted his greatest failure as a philosopher were these fragments he left behind. He mocks his own pain because he cannot remain silent on it. There is always a subtext: yes, even this is meaningless. A true philosopher, Cioran maintains, would say nothing.