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Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
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Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
Emil Cioran
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If I used to ask myself, over a coffin, 'what good did it do the occupant to be born?' I now put the same question about anyone alive.
Emil Cioran -
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.
Emil Cioran -
Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.
Emil Cioran -
The mind advances only when it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.
Emil Cioran -
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.
Emil Cioran -
The reasons for persisting in Being seem less and less well founded, and our successors will find it easier than we to be rid of such obstinacy.
Emil Cioran
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Since the only things we remember are humiliations and defeats, what is the use of all the rest?
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All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
Emil Cioran -
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.
Emil Cioran -
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
Emil Cioran -
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Emil Cioran -
I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.
Emil Cioran
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Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
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We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a speed that made me dizzy.
Emil Cioran -
How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.
Emil Cioran -
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
Emil Cioran -
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Emil Cioran -
How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
Emil Cioran
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The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.
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We always love...despite; and that 'despite' covers an infinity.
Emil Cioran -
No longer ask me for my program: isn't breathing one?
Emil Cioran -
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Emil Cioran