Cioran: His Aphoristic Self


     Perhaps we should publish only our first drafts, before we ourselves know what we are trying to say.
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     Only unfinished -- because unfinishable -- works prompt us to speculate about the essence of art.
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     What cannot be translated into mystical language does not deserve to be experienced.
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     L. wants to know if I have a suicide line, but I hide my hands, and rather than show them to him, I shall always wear gloves in his presence.
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     A book should open old wounds, even inflict new ones. A book should be a danger
 

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