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Emil M. Cioran rewrote his first book in French, A Short History of Decay, four times even after it was accepted by Gallimard. Upon publication, the book won the Rivarol prize, the only award Cioran accepted in his lifetime. Sometime during the 1950's, Cioran met Simone Boue, who became his lifelong companion.

He led a predominately quiet and solitary life of study and composition, but later became increasingly involved in the Parisian community of artists and writers that was especially vibrant in the 50's and 60's.

He befriended Samuel Beckett, but Beckett later lost sympathy with Cioran's pessimism. He was a personal friend with most of the Romanian expatriates as well as many Existentialists, Surrealists and founders of the Theater of the Absurd.