If we see things black, it is because we weigh them in the dark, because thoughts are generally the fruit of sleeplessness, consequently of darkness. They cannot adapt to life because they have not been thought with a view to life.
 Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born (1973). copy citation

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Author Emil Cioran
Source The Trouble With Being Born
Topic darkness life
Date 1973
Language English
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