Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 15

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• Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Depression, Fighting, Vitality

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• As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Art, Anomalies, Way

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

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• What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

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  Thinking, People, Doe

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

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• Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

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  Tolerance, Young, Seducing

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

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• To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

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  Revenge, Thinking, Camouflage

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• What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Abuse, Philosopher, Pity

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• Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Law, Void, Belief

  "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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• The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

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  Voice, Solitude, Doe

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

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• Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Secret, Kind, Misanthropy

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• Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Real

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• Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

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  Writing, Philosopher, Professors

  "Ecartelement (Drawn and Quartered)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1983.

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• The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

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  Light, Return, Welcome

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

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• If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

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  Knowing, Reason, Ifs

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.49, Arcade Publishing

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• Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

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  Poison, Synthesis, Woe

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

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• What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Night, Insomnia, Tunes

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• Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

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  Despair, Tasks, Lucidity

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.26, Arcade Publishing

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• Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

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  Night, Insomnia, Parent

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

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• The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

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  Aphorism, Midst, Known

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.7, Arcade Publishing

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• Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

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  Time, Echoes, Ennui

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

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• For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

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  Spiritual, Pride, Erosion

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

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• Under each formula lies a corpse.

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  Lying, Formulas, Corpses

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

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