Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 13

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• We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving, Despair, Void

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

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• In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Law, Tyrants, Republic

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

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• My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Enthusiasm, Resources, My Future

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• To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Aliens, Indifference, Claims

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

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• I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sleep, Tragedy, Sitting

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• It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Long, Soul

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

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• Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hurt, Pain, Real

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

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• No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Trembling, Enjoy

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

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• I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Saws, Belief

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• Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Optimistic, Rose, Vision

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Ideas, Anxiety

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

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• Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.

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  Religious, Profound, Paradise

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

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• In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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• All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Exclamation Marks, Ideas, Skulls

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• I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prayer, Telegrams

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

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• Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Sleep, Night

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Source, Source Of Life, Subjective

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• Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Cutting, Martyr, Havens

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• Word - that invisible dagger.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Daggers, Invisible

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

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• The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

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  Thinking, Destiny, Mirrors

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• What is pity but the vice of kindness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Kindness, Vices, Pity

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• The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Chiaroscuro, Harbors

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

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• Pursued by our origins... we all are.

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  Pursued

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

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• We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Jobs, Consent, Regard

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

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• Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Erode, Empires

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

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