Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 9

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• Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Mind, Delicacy

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.6, Arcade Publishing

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• A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

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  Civilization, Obsession, Moments

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

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• To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Goal, Weak, States

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• The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.

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  Light, Solitude, Principles

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

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• All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Unique, Feet

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

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• To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Form, Delicate, Exploitation

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

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  Suicide, World, Melancholy

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.86, Arcade Publishing

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• To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

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  Blow, World, Language

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

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• A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

  Emile M. Cioran

  God, Civilization, Destroyed

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• No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Desire, Too Late

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

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• If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.

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  Lying, Character, Answers

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

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• As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

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  Years, Names, Numbers

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

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• Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Needs, Appetite

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• Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

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  Ruins, Irritated, Appetite

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

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• Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

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  Freedom, Long, Rejection

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• Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

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  Criticism, Critics, Misconception

  "Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

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  Police, Calling, Conflict

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

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• I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

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  Night, Feet, Discovery

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

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• One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

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  Country, Doe, Language

  "Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

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  Giving, Imperfection, Littles

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• Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

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  Genius, Talent, Discretion

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• Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

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  Ruins, Should, Recalls

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.21, Arcade Publishing

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• To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

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  Father, Being A Father, Crime

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

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• I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

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  Believe, Men, Acting

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• No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Alive, Understood, Position

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

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