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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
Emile M. Cioran
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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
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I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
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Our first intuitions are the true ones.
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There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
Emile M. Cioran
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
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Wisdom disguises our wounds it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
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The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.
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What is pity but the vice of kindness.
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The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
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When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
Emile M. Cioran
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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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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Society: an inferno of saviors!
Emile M. Cioran
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.
Emile M. Cioran
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
