The Trouble with Being Born

by Emil M. Cioran

each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

You come back up to the surface, you follow all over again, amazed to see he seems to be saying something and to understand what it is, and then you start going round and round again, and you sink once more … All of which is meant to be profound, and seems so. But once you come to your senses you realize it’s only abstruse, obscure, and that the distance between real profundity and the willed kind is as great as between a revelation and a whim.

Kind of sums up reading this book.

Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.

Consider it done

one should be careful not to write. God doesn’t read …

Neither do your five star reviewers.