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"A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone's hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison."--The New Yorker

A sort of anti-christ version of Chicken Soup for the Soul. The only complete book of aphormisms that Cioran wrote. A book Nietzsche might have written had he never perished from syphilis. He is the master of the aphormism, this condensed, philosophical, particularly French form... Read Full Overview

In The Trouble with Being Born, the author strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth & death, believing that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident."