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On the Heights of Despair

by Emil Cioran

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First published: 1930
Pages: 134

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On the Heights of Despair is a deep philosophical exploration. The book is a collection of concise reflections on topics that would later become central to Cioran’s philosophy, such as death, insomnia, and madness.

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Emil Cioran

Cioran wrote aphorisms about despair, insomnia and the pointlessness of having been born, in Romanian first and then in French, a language he learned to write with obsessive care after moving to Paris in 1937. On the Heights of Despair appeared when he was twenty-three, produced during a stretch of sleeplessness he said ran for years.

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