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After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Emile M. Cioran
Reality, Silence, Despair

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Emile M. Cioran
Silence, Mouths, Speech
"The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Emile M. Cioran
Silence, Essentials, Speech
"Loneliness and Politics with E. M. Cioran". TinHouse interview, tinhouse.com. August 10, 2017.

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