Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 12

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• To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sacrifice, Envy, Venture

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

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• To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

  Emile M. Cioran

  Cells, Years, Firsts

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

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• Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Conscious, Concessions

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• Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Insomnia, Paradise, Torture

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• A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

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  Country, Men, Self

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

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• Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Frustration, Sensations

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

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• Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Music, Soul, Music Is

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• We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Proportion, Fling

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

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• To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hatred, Vengeance, Pardon

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• To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Life, Faith, Prayer

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• All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Desire, Holes, Eros

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

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• Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Silence, Mouths, Speech

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

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• A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

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  Ideas, People, Obsession

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

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• Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Religious, Healthy, Mind

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

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• We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Alive, Normal

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• We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Lonely, Loneliness, Dying

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

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• We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

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  Incomplete

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

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• Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ancient, Melancholy, Symbols

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

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• God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

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  God, Atheism, Disease

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

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• Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

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  Men, Feet, Paradise

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

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• We change ideas like neckties.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Change, Ideas, Neckties

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

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• We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Interest, Spread, Misfortunes

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• The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

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  Thinking, Destiny, Mirrors

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

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• There is no limit to suffering.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suffering, Limits

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• At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suffering, Events, Moments

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

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