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Pursued by our origins... we all are.
Emile M. Cioran
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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Emile M. Cioran
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
Emile M. Cioran
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Emile M. Cioran
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.
Emile M. Cioran
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
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
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
For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.
Emile M. Cioran
Under each formula lies a corpse.
Emile M. Cioran
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule he offers himself.
Emile M. Cioran
We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
Emile M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Emile M. Cioran
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
Emile M. Cioran
We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
Emile M. Cioran
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
Emile M. Cioran
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
Emile M. Cioran
Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
Emile M. Cioran
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.
Emile M. Cioran