Emil Cioran Quotes
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Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them.
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To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.
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One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
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Who does not believe in Fate proves that he has not lived.
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
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If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?
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For a long time-always, in fact-I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.
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The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.
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Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.
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For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.
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To suffer is to produce knowledge.
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I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide.
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Consciousness is nature's nightmare.
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Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
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It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.
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'Where do you get those superior airs of yours?' 'I've managed to survive, you see, all those nights when I wondered: am I going to kill myself at dawn?'
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The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
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A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after an autopsy, is less than a corpse.
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There is no false sensation.
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Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
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Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.