Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 4

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• It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

  Emile M. Cioran

  Endure, Imposter

  "A short history of decay".

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• Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Fear, Inspire, Dread

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

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• No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suffering, Belief, Appetite

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

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• The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

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  Wise, Men, Sage

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• The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

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  Pride, Ego, Flesh

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

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• A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

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  Men, Order, Together

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• Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

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  Pain, Real, Suffering

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

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• When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

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  Suicide, People, Want

  "The Trouble With Being Born". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1973.

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• I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

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  People, Defects, Seems

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

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• The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

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  Needs, Gorillas, Novelty

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

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• Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

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  Mixtures, Utopia, Rationalism

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

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• I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

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  Work, Trying, Granted

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

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• Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

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  Rebel, Arms, Slave

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

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• To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

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  Accomplish Nothing, Accomplish, Strain

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• I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

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  Eye, Broken, Puppets

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.44, Arcade Publishing

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• The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

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  Loneliness, Men, Suffering

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

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• I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

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  Believe, Thinking, People

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

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• To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

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  Effort, Cost, Able

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• Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

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  Giving, Flaws, Crime

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• A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

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  Enemy, Gates

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

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• The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

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  Desire, My One And Only, Concern

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.74, Arcade Publishing

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• Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

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  Freedom, Tyrants, Democracy

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• We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

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  Disease, Rage, Provoked

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

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• I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

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  Suicide, Ideas, Dies

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.69, Arcade Publishing

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• However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Devil, Acrimony, Caprice

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