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• Our first intuitions are the true ones.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Intuition, Firsts, True Ones

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

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Names, Speak

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

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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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mean, World, Degrees

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• One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Doe, Language

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

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Interesting, Mind, Mets

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

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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."

  Emile M. Cioran

  Inspire, Secret, Desire

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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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Life And Death, Overcoming

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

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  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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• Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Humanity, Causes, Adore

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• Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Nightmare, Consciousness

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

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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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Men, World

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

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Fear, Inspire, Dread

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

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Civilization, Advice

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Futility Of Life, Decision, Life Is

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Trying, Hunger, Dies

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

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• We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

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  Want, Not Sure, Dread

  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?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hate, Cities, Space

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

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Cheating, Thinking, Failing

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

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

  Emile M. Cioran

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

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

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Fists, Language

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

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• We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Conviction, Ifs

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

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