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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.
Emil Cioran
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All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression 'metaphysical exile' had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.
Emil Cioran -
Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities.
Emil Cioran -
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
Emil Cioran -
God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.
Emil Cioran -
Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to mind is invariably the same: how does he keep from killing himself?
Emil Cioran -
An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
Emil Cioran
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Facing a landscape annihilated by the light, to remain serene supposes a temper I do not have. The sun is my purveyor of black thoughts; and summer the season when I have always reconsidered my relations with this world and with myself, to the greatest prejudice of both.
Emil Cioran -
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emil Cioran -
We regret not having the courage to make such and such decision; we regret much more having made one - any one. Better no action than the consequences of an action.
Emil Cioran -
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.
Emil Cioran -
I seem to myself, among civilised men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
Emil Cioran -
To hope is to contradict the future.
Emil Cioran
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Late at night. I feel like falling into a frenzy, doing some unprecedented thing to release myself, but I don't see against whom, against what...
Emil Cioran -
Existing is plagiarism.
Emil Cioran -
Incredible that the prospect of having a biographer has made no one renounce having a life.
Emil Cioran -
I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.
Emil Cioran -
To have committed every crime but that of being a father.
Emil Cioran -
What are you waiting for in order to give up?
Emil Cioran
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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.
Emil Cioran -
Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to suffer, is to accept the invasion of ills without the excuse of causality, as a favor of demented nature, as a negative miracle...
Emil Cioran -
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.
Emil Cioran -
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
Emil Cioran