One of my favourite quotes because, for me at least, it embodies the importance of writing with honesty and integrity, and about being true to the words themselves.
“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
Émile Michel Cioran born April 8, 1911 (a fellow Aries!) in Rasinari, Romania, died June 20, 1955 in Paris, France. He was a Romanian philosopher who wrote his early works in Romanian but then later estranged himself from Romania and the language in favour of writing in French, even going so far as to write letters to his parents in French. He also worked as a translator, publishing house reader, and high school teacher.
His rather pessimistic, skeptical nature and interest in the somber outskirts of religion led his mother to declare that if she had known he would be so unhappy, she would have aborted him. This insensitive declaration likely precipitated a number of Cioran’s fundamental insights into human existence, including: “I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?“
