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Emil M. Cioran quotes: I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall. I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Tears do not burn except in solitude. Tears do not burn except in solitude.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: The human being delivered to himself, without any partiality for elegance, is a monster. The human being delivered to himself, without any partiality for elegance, is a monster.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Beatitude through suffering is an illusion, since it requires a reconciliation to the fatality of pain in order to avoid total annihilation. Beatitude through suffering is an illusion, since it requires a reconciliation to the fatality of pain in order to avoid total annihilation.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: No one reads to know, but to forget No one reads to know, but to forget
Emil M. Cioran quotes: The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame. The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Once I had a "self"; now I am no more than an object. Once I had a "self"; now I am no more than an object.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Mystery - a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are. Mystery - a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: You with your veins full of night - you have no more place among men than an epitaph in the middle of a circus. You with your veins full of night - you have no more place among men than an epitaph in the middle of a circus.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born. Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Any and all water is the color of drowning. Any and all water is the color of drowning.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: The mission of Everyman is to fulfill the lies he incarnates, to succeed in being no more than an exhaust illusion. The mission of Everyman is to fulfill the lies he incarnates, to succeed in being no more than an exhaust illusion.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains. Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Ever since I was born" - that since has a resonance so dreadful to my ears it becomes unendurable. Ever since I was born" - that since has a resonance so dreadful to my ears it becomes unendurable.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia. Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Every 'I' begins with a crack and a revelation. Every 'I' begins with a crack and a revelation.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more. My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: A remark of my brother's apropos of the troubles and pains our mother endured: "Old age is nature's self-criticism. A remark of my brother's apropos of the troubles and pains our mother endured: "Old age is nature's self-criticism.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Memory's one function is to help us regret Memory's one function is to help us regret
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal. Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: The Real gives me asthma. The Real gives me asthma.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal! If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal!
Emil M. Cioran quotes: A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment. A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Word - That invisible dagger. Word - That invisible dagger.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: A book is a suicide postponed. A book is a suicide postponed.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Kill yourself because of what you are, yes, but not because all humanity would spit in your face! Kill yourself because of what you are, yes, but not because all humanity would spit in your face!
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone. Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence. The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: All that is Life in me urges me to give up God. All that is Life in me urges me to give up God.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Our power resides in our incapacity to know how alone we are. Our power resides in our incapacity to know how alone we are.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us
Emil M. Cioran quotes: The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life. The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: Tolerance cannot seduce the young. Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast. The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: God does not read. God does not read.
Emil M. Cioran quotes: To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege. To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege.

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