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Pursued by our origins... we all are.
Emile M. Cioran
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Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.
Emile M. Cioran
One does not inhabit a country one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
Emile M. Cioran
Word - that invisible dagger.
Emile M. Cioran
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
Emile M. Cioran
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
Emile M. Cioran
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
Emile M. Cioran
What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.
Emile M. Cioran
There is no limit to suffering.
Emile M. Cioran
In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
Emile M. Cioran
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
Emile M. Cioran
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Emile M. Cioran
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Emile M. Cioran
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
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
Emile M. Cioran
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emile M. Cioran
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Emile M. Cioran
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
Emile M. Cioran
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
Emile M. Cioran
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
Emile M. Cioran
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
Emile M. Cioran