Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 4

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Want, Not Sure, Dread

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

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• I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Work, Trying, Granted

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

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• It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Enemy, Enough

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

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• I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Defects, Seems

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

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• True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prayer, Communication, Inward

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

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• This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Unique, Forever, Suffering

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

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• Existing is plagiarism.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Plagiarism

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

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• Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Two, Fiction

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

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• Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Starting Over, Everyday

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

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• There was a time when time did not yet exist.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time

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

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• Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Passion, Reality, Men

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

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• I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Morning, Night, Mad

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

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• To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

  Emile M. Cioran

  Accomplish Nothing, Accomplish, Strain

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• Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Indifference, Pathology

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

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• For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Illusion

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

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• Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Looks, Answers, Earth

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

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• How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Void, Infinite, Throwing

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

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• The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sleep, Animal, Insomnia

  "This column will change your life: Can't sleep, don't sleep" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Sensations

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

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• However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Devil, Acrimony, Caprice

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• He who hates himself is not humble.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hate, Humble

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

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• Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mixtures, Utopia, Rationalism

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

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• Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sweat, Bases

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• Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sweet, Revenge, Victim

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

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