Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 5

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• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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

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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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• To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Father, Being A Father, Crime

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

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• To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dying, Want, Recycling

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• What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Insomnia, Kind, Endure

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

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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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• Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sweat, Bases

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• The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, World, Melancholy

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.86, Arcade Publishing

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• Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Paradise, Moments, Conscious

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

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• Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Genius, Talent, Discretion

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• Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sad, Misery, Melancholy

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.51, Arcade Publishing

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• What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Madness, Appeals, Difficult

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

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• The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pride, Ego, Flesh

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

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• What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tragedy, Would Be, Insects

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• What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Heart, Men

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

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• Normal people have nothing to forget.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Normal, Forget

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• A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Sides, Genius

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

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• Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Events, Bitter, Sometimes

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• Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Flesh, Daggers, Consciousness

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

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• Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Deserve More, Temptation, Demand

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• Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Wish, Position

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

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• The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Needs, Gorillas, Novelty

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

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• Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Self, Would Be, Scrutiny

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

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• Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Bored, Unwind, Ecstasy

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.50, Arcade Publishing

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• There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Death, Men, Differences

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