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| | Emil Cioran (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | He was born Emil Mihai Cioran in Rasinari, Sibiu, Austria-Hungary (present-day Romania) the son of a Romanian Orthodox priest, and died in Paris, having variously lived in Bucharest, Berlin, and elsewhere. |
 | | A 1937 scholarship from the French Institute in Bucharest brought him to Paris, where helived the rest of his life—though he famously said "I have no nationality—the best possible status for anintellectual." His early work was in Romanian, his latter work inFrench, and it was mostly in the form of aphorisms and short essays. |
 | | William Gass called Cioran's work "a philosophical romance on modern themes of alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility,decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as a agony, reason as disease." |
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