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• Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

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  Names, Speak

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

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• I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

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  Dream, Fists, Language

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

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• Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

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  Thinking, Differences, Psychotic

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• Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

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  Regret, Men, World

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

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• Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

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  Inspirational, Mind, Function

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

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• Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

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  People, Doe, Facts

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• Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

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  Prove

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

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• When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

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  Suicide, People, Want

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

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• Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

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  Power, Suffering, Appetite

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

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• Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

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  Futility Of Life, Decision, Life Is

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• Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

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  Delirium Tremens, Delirium, Undone

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

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• A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

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  Self, Civilization, Advice

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• Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

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  Cheating, Thinking, Failing

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

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• Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?

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  Hate, Cities, Space

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

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• No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

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  Suffering, Belief, Appetite

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

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• An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

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  Risk, Individual, Hurling

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• Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

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  Trying, Hunger, Dies

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

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• A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

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  God, Civilization, Destroyed

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• Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

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  Secret, Teach, Disguise

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• Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

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  Men, Evil People, Order

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• I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

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  Interesting, Mind, Mets

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

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• As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

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  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

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

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• We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

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  Disease, Rage, Provoked

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

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• Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

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  Doubt, Disease, Deep Within

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

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• Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

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  Anxiety, Elegance, Skepticism

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.19, Arcade Publishing

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