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As all parasites, he adapted well. Emil M. Cioran would live meagerly (though in the company of the finest minds) in Paris for the rest of his life. He worked as a translator and reader for various publishing houses to support himself. He conquered his insomnia by cycling until the point of exhaustion.

In 1944, while trying to translate Mallarme into Romanian, Cioran discovered the inherent weakness of Romanian and the limitations his native language imposed on his creative expression, so he decided to write exclusively in French from then on (though at the time he more fluent in German).