Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 2

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• What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

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  Years, Long, Twenties

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

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• I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

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  Enemy, Ends, Decided

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

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• Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

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  Cynical, Democracy, Mediocrity

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• How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

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  Real, Fall, Thinking

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

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• Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

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  Life Sucks, Best Laid Plans, Hate Life

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

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• I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Accidents

  "Simone de beauvoir and emil cioran: blackstar 10/1/16". 3:AM Magazine Interview, www.3ammagazine.com. January 16, 2016.

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• Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

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  Men, Alive, Miserable

  "Simone de Beauvoir and Emil Cioran: Blackstar 10/1/16". Interview with Simone de Beauvoir, www.3ammagazine.com. January 16, 2016.

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• What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

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  Reality, Way, Failing

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

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• The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

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  Love, Art, Knowing

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• Our first intuitions are the true ones.

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  Intuition, Firsts, True Ones

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

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

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  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

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  Dust, Would Be, Flow

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• Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

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  Fear, Inspire, Dread

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

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• Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

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  Nightmare, Consciousness

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

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• Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

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  Solitude, Encounters, Doing Nothing

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• Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

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  Wish, Vomiting, Sometimes

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

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• Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

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  Strong, Adventure, Blood

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• Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

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  Crazy, Mad, Should

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• Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

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  Matter, Loser, One Thing

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

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• If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

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  Inspire, Secret, Desire

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• How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

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  Self, Flaws, Easy

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

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• Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

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  Humanity, Causes, Adore

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• One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

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  Long, Slave, Remains

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1979.

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• Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

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  People, Life And Death, Overcoming

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

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• To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

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  Mean, World, Degrees

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