# Quote — Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

> It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

- Author: [Emil Cioran](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran.md)
- Book: [The Trouble With Being Born](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/the-trouble-with-being-born.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/the-trouble-with-being-born/it-is-a-great

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> Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.

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