Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 10

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• If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Misunderstood, Age, Complaining

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• Reality is a creation of our excesses.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Reality, Excess, Creation

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Borders, Kind, Misanthropy

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Jealousy, Secret, Aversion

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• I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prayer, Men, Civilized

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• Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Glory

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Design, Causes

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• Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Abuse, Liberty, Possession

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Events, Too Much, Said

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Long, Madness

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• History proves nothing because it contains everything.

  Emile M. Cioran

  History, Prove

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ambition, Addiction, Drug

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  May, Incapacity

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• In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sleep, Men, Evil

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Atheism, Missions, Positive Atheism

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• By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Depth, Shame

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pain, Pessimistic, Limits

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• Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Melancholy, Universe

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

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  Philosophical, Love Is, Rivals

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing

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• We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

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  Dying, Lost, Born

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

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  Cells, Years, Firsts

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sacrifice, Envy, Venture

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

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  Insomnia, Paradise, Torture

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• I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

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  Agony, World, This World

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Melancholy, Ends

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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