Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 14

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• Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Inspire, Sacred, Glory

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

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• The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tyrants, Ideas, Atheism

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

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• Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Madness, Utopia

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• Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Intelligence, Age, Belief

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

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• The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Flesh, Results

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• That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Goal, Willing

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

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• One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Language

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• What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Writing, Fifty

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• The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Disaster, Release, Phenomenon

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• I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Want, Tough

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• To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Despair, Habit

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• Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

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  Tolerance, Function, Young

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

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• Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Boredom, Mind, Sap

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• "The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Atheism, Ghost, Holy

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• In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tyrants, Order, Stuff

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

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• We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

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  Miracle, Hell, Moments

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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• A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Lows, Fallen

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• The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Quests, Vulgar, Deceived

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

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• Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

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  Exercise, Men, Duration

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

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• A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Silence, Essentials, Speech

  "Loneliness and Politics with E. M. Cioran". TinHouse interview, tinhouse.com. August 10, 2017.

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• The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

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  Men, Tasks, Solitary

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• Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Real

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• Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Law, Void, Belief

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

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• Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tolerance, Young, Seducing

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

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• Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Insomnia, Light, Diversity

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