Emile M. Cioran Quotes - Page 8

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• Man is a robot with defects.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Robots, Defects

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ifs

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.116, Arcade Publishing

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• We inhabit a language rather than a country.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Language

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• You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hate, Loving Life, Men

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• I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Believe, Men, Acting

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• No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Desire, Too Late

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

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  Belief, Martyr, Dangerous

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• Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

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  Home, Existence, Exile

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

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• Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

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  Men, Saving, Paradise

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• My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Knowing, Ignorant, Suffering

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

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• Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

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  Men, Needs, Appetite

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• Society: an inferno of saviors!

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  Inferno, Savior

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

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• All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Flames, Fire, People

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• What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Moving On, Names, Giving

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

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• A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Regret, Feet, Easy

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Reputation, Immortality

  "A critic of one's own" by Tim Parks, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2003.

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• One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Ruling

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

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• Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Freedom, Tyrants, Democracy

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• What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

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  Pride, Revelations

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

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• Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

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  Practice, Psychology, Risk

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.30, Arcade Publishing

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• If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

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  Beer, Parent, Overcoming

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• Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

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  Ideas, Mind, Delicacy

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.6, Arcade Publishing

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• There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

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  Time, Rejection, Nostalgia

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

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• If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

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  Doubt, Shame, Ifs

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

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• A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Democracy, Paradise, Offers

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

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