His aphorisms are unlike the smug, bourgeois exponents of the Nineteenth century. They open wounds. Still, Cioran is not studied. This is the academic orthodoxy. And that's fine.
Scholars read texts like drivers read diversion signs.
La Rochefoucauld 20 miles, Nietzsche 40, Existentialism, forever. Alternatively, just read the sentences. Cioran is lyrical. His style is a varient on song. At the same time he is a writer of solitude and subjectivity.