Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 8

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• If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Lasts, Spite, Contradictory

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• Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Believe, Sadness

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• My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

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  Knowing, Ignorant, Suffering

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

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  Solitude, Sin, Purity

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

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• What are you waiting for in order to give up?

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  Giving Up, Order, Giving

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

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• To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

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  Anchors

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

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• Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Events, Bitter, Sometimes

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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.

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  Anchors, Tangible, Feels

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• The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

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  Ghost, Mask, Curtains

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• What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

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  Insomnia, Kind, Endure

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

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• Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

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  Cheating, Thinking, Failing

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

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• To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

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  Lying, Believe, Oneself

  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.

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  Power, Suffering, Appetite

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

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• Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

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  Stupid, Miracle, Disease

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

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• He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

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  Drama, Vegetables, Humans

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

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• The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sleep, Animal, Insomnia

  "This column will change your life: Can't sleep, don't sleep" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Tears

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• Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

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  Sad, Misery, Melancholy

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.51, Arcade Publishing

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• An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

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  Risk, Individual, Hurling

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• When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

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  Delight, Devouring

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

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• Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

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  Thinking, Differences, Psychotic

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• If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

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  Men, Fascination, Saint

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• A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

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  Regret, Feet, Easy

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

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• What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

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  Moving On, Names, Giving

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

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• You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

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  Hate, Loving Life, Men

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