Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 14

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• Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Erode, Empires

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

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• A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Silence, Essentials, Speech

  "Loneliness and Politics with E. M. Cioran". TinHouse interview, tinhouse.com. August 10, 2017.

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• Pursued by our origins... we all are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pursued

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

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• What is pity but the vice of kindness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Kindness, Vices, Pity

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• We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Jobs, Consent, Regard

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

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• The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Chiaroscuro, Harbors

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

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• Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Inspire, Sacred, Glory

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

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• The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tyrants, Ideas, Atheism

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

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• I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Intellectual, Nationality

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

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• An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Flames, Fire, Trying

  "The Trouble With Being Born". Book by Emil Cioran, 1973.

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• Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Intelligence, Age, Belief

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

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• The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Flesh, Results

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• That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Goal, Willing

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

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• Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Madness, Utopia

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• One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Language

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• What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Writing, Fifty

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• The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Disaster, Release, Phenomenon

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• I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Want, Tough

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• Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tolerance, Function, Young

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

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• To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Despair, Habit

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• Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Boredom, Mind, Sap

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• "The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Atheism, Ghost, Holy

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• In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tyrants, Order, Stuff

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

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• A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Lows, Fallen

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• Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Pay, Damage

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

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