The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.
 Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born (1973). copy citation

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Author Emil Cioran
Source The Trouble With Being Born
Topic disaster surprise
Date 1973
Language English
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