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• It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Too Late

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

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• To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Anchors, Tangible, Feels

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• Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Passion, Reality, Men

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

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• What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Reality, Way, Failing

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

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• Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Men, World

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

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• To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mean, World, Degrees

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• If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

  Emile M. Cioran

  Inspire, Secret, Desire

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• Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Trying, Hunger, Dies

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

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• Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Wish, Vomiting, Sometimes

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

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• Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Encounters, Doing Nothing

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• Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

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  Names, Speak

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

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• Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Sin, Purity

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

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• Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Power, Suffering, Appetite

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

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• A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Golden, Golden Rule, Incomplete

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

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• For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Illusion

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

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• He who hates himself is not humble.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hate, Humble

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

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• True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prayer, Communication, Inward

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

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• Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hate, Cities, Space

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

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• Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

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  People, Life And Death, Overcoming

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

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• This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

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  Unique, Forever, Suffering

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

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• Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

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  Self, Would Be, Scrutiny

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

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• How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

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  Void, Infinite, Throwing

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

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• Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prove

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

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• When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Relief, Lasts

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

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• What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

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  Tragedy, Would Be, Insects

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