The Trouble with Being Born by Emil M. Cioran

The Trouble with Being Born

Emil M. Cioran with Richard Howard (Translator)

217 pages first pub 1973 (editions) user-added

nonfiction philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

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In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "...

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Moods

reflective 86%
dark 68%
challenging 40%
sad 28%
emotional 26%
funny 14%
informative 10%
inspiring 10%
tense 7%
relaxing 5%
mysterious 4%

Pace

slow 53%
fast 24%
medium 22%

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