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Emile M. Cioran

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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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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.
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True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
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Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
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Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
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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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Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
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Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
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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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Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
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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.
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
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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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One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.
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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.
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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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Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.
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What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.
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