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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
— Emile M. Cioran
The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves.
— Paul-Emile Victor
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.
— Emile M. Cioran
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
— Emile M. Cioran
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
— Emile Durkheim
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
— Emile Souvestre
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.
— Robert M. Parker Jr.
As Emile Leger said when he left his mansion in Montreal to go live in a leper colony in Africa, The time for talking is over.
— Brennan Manning
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
— Emile Zola
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
— Emile Chartier
My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
— Emile M. Cioran
When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
— Emile Durkheim
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
— Emile M. Cioran
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
— Emile Durkheim
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
— Emile M. Cioran
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
— Emile M. Cioran
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
— Emile M. Cioran
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
— Emile M. Cioran
Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
— Emile M. Cioran
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
— Emile M. Cioran
We are all geniuses when we dream.
— Emile M. Cioran
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.
— Emile M. Cioran
...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.
— Emile Gaboriau
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
— Emile M. Cioran
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
— Emile M. Cioran
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
— Emile M. Cioran
In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.
— Emile Verhaeren
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
— Emile M. Cioran
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
— Emile M. Cioran
Normal people have nothing to forget.
— Emile M. Cioran
Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?
— Emile Galle
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
— Emile Zola
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
— Emile Zola
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
— Emile M. Cioran
One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.
— Emile M. Cioran
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.
— Emile M. Cioran
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
— Emile M. Cioran
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
— Emile M. Cioran
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
— Emile M. Cioran
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
— Emile M. Cioran
Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.
— Emile Coue
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
— Emile M. Cioran
The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.
— Emile Gruppe
Homesickness for the gutter.
— Emile Augier
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
— Emile M. Cioran
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
— Emile De Girardin
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
— Emile Durkheim
As far as dieting and weight loss go, diet and exercise actually works. Lots of running and healthy eating.
— Emile Hirsch
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life
— Emile M. Cioran
There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.
— Emile Chartier
Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.
— Emile Augier
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
— Emile Durkheim
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
— Emile M. Cioran
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
— Emile M. Cioran
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.
— Emile M. Cioran
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
— Emile M. Cioran
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt
— Paul-Emile Victor
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
— Emile M. Cioran
Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.
— Emile Hirsch
You know it's easy here to buy journalists.
— Emile Lahoud
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.
— Emile Durkheim
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
— Emile M. Cioran
Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.
— Emile Augier
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.
— Emile M. Cioran
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula ... to give a facade tot he void.
— Emile M. Cioran
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.
— Emile M. Cioran
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
— Emile M. Cioran
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
— Emile M. Cioran
A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, No, it is night.
— Emile Gaboriau
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
— Emile M. Cioran
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
— Emile M. Cioran