Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 11

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• Tears do not burn except in solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Tears

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

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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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• 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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• The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Men, Misery

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• Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

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  Events, Too Much, Said

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

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• Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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  Jealousy, Secret, Aversion

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• On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

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  Eye, Creating, Expression

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• Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

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  Self, Rejection, Substance

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

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• Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

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  Talent, Shameless, Form

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• Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

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  Glory

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

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• Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

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  Soul, Sadism, Skepticism

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

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• So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

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  Men, Long, Madness

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

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• A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

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  Book, Design, Causes

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• Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

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  Abuse, Liberty, Possession

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

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• Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

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  Suffering, Details, Flow

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• Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

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  World, Melancholy, Ends

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

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• My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

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  Atheism, Missions, Positive Atheism

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• By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

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  Memories, Depth, Shame

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

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• Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

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  Melancholy, Universe

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

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• If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

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  Misunderstood, Age, Complaining

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• History proves nothing because it contains everything.

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  History, Prove

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

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• Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

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  Epilepsy, Life Is, Geometry

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

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• I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

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  Prayer, Men, Civilized

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• A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

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  Betrayal, Prejudice, Insult

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• I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

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  Agony, World, This World

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

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