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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
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
— Emile Zola
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.
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
Consciousness is nature's nightmare.
— Emile M. Cioran
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
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
— Emile Zola
The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.
— Emile Hirsch
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
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
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
— 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
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
— Emile Zola
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
— Emile M. Cioran
It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.
— Emile Coue
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
— Emile Zola
Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?
— Emile Galle
When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
— Emile Zola
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
— Emile Chartier
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
— 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
In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.
— Emile Verhaeren
There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.
— Emile Hirsch
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
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
— 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
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
— Emile M. Cioran
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
— Emile M. Cioran
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
— Emile M. Cioran
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
— Emile Zola
Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
— Emile Chartier
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.
— Emile M. Cioran
There's only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois.
— Emile Zola
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
— Emile Chartier
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
— 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
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
— Emile Zola
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 passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.
— Emile Zola
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
She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?
— Emile Zola
With his mouth open, he gave off that alcoholic smell that you get from an old brandy cask when you take out the bung.
— Emile Zola
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