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Before he left, his mother told Emil M. Cioran that if she knew he was going to be this unhappy she would have aborted him. In Germany, he grew disillusioned with academic philosophy and began gravitating to the aphoristic philosophical style that would become his trademark.

After spending a year teaching high school in Brasov in 1936, he convinced the French Institute of Bucharest to provide a dissertation fellowship to allow him to continue his study of Bergson's Intuitionism in Paris.

By the time he reached Paris in 1937, Emil M. Cioran had published three books in Romanian, but was forced to live meagerly, as a 'parasite', often depending on the charity of dinner parties thrown by the friends of his fellow Romanian expatriates.