How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

The line satirizes a common pose in intellectual and artistic life: the performance of “depth.” Cioran suggests that what passes for profundity is often just self-absorption—an indulgent descent into one’s defects, wounds, and contradictions. “Sinking into your own flaws” implies passivity and gravity: you don’t have to work to become deep; you only have to stop resisting your darker tendencies and call that descent insight. The barb is double-edged: it critiques fashionable pessimism and confessional seriousness, while also acknowledging how readily the mind can mistake obsession with personal misery for genuine understanding.