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Emile M Cioran Inspirational Quotes (226)

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Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
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Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
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On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
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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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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
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If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
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As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
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No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
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We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
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I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
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Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
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True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
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Our first intuitions are the true ones.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.
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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
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My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
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The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
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It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false
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The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
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