Friday, April 2, 2010
cioran:another way of knowing what one knows
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot. (“On the Heights of Despair,” p.85)
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ah cioran
my fellow insomniac
the book on insomnia
that i perused
had some quotes from cioran
actually
i've been sleeping not too badly lately
generally getting about 6 hours
sometimes more
i think cioran had it worse than i do
blessed easter
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