What I know at sixty I knew at twenty. Forty years of superfluous verification.

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About Emil Cioran

Portrait of Emil Cioran

Emil Mihai Cioran (; Romanian: [eˈmil tʃoˈran] ; French: [emil sjɔʁɑ̃]; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist, and essayist who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorisms. His works frequently engaged...

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What does 'I love you' even mean? It's weird how different three words can feel. I mean, I've said it before but it's never felt so… big, you know? I'm not sure it meant the same thing then. Like, I was too young to get it.

—Christina Lauren in Beautiful Stranger

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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If youth knew; if age could.

—Sigmund Freud

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

—Douglas Coupland in Life After God

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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