Emil Cioran Quotes

But, braggart demons, we postpone our end: how could we renounce the display of our freedom, the show of our pride?

Emil Cioran

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• It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.

  

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• But, braggart demons, we postpone our end: how could we renounce the display of our freedom, the show of our pride?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Freedom
  • Pride