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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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

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• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

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• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

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• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

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• I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

  

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• The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

  

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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