Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 6

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• We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Meeting Someone, Someday, Meetings

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• A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

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  Democracy, Paradise, Offers

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

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• Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

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  Bored, Unwind, Ecstasy

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.50, Arcade Publishing

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• There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

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  Mean, Existence, Prove

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

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• History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

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  History, Mind, Degradation

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

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• Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

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  Men, Evil People, Order

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• When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

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  Forever, Needs, Miserable

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

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• Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

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  Flesh, Daggers, Consciousness

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

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• We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vitality, Madness, Stores

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• Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

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  Looks, Answers, Earth

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

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• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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

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• A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

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  Men, Sides, Genius

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

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• To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Fall, Writing

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• Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

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  Men, Starting Over, Everyday

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

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• We inhabit a language rather than a country.

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  Country, Language

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• Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

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  Paradise, Moments, Conscious

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

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• All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

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  Ignorance, Interesting, World

  Emile M. Cioran (1970). “The fall into time”, Crown

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• I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

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  Dream, Fists, Language

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

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• One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

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  World, Ruling

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

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• To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

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  Rejection, Violence, Accepting

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• A book is a suicide postponed.

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  Suicide, Book

  "Simone de Beauvoir and Emil Cioran: Blackstar 10/1/16". Interview with Simone de Beauvoir, www.3ammagazine.com. January 16, 2016.

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• Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

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  Book, Writing, Dare

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

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• Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

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  Home, Existence, Exile

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

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• What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

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  Pride, Revelations

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

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• What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

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  Time, Men, Doe

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

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