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By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.
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I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person.
Emil Cioran
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No longer ask me for my program: isn't breathing one?
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He who hates himself is not humble.
Emil Cioran -
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
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To try curing someone of a 'vice,' of what is the deepest thing he has, is to attack his very being, and this is indeed how he himself understands it, since he will never forgive you for wanting him to destroy himself in your way and not his.
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Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
Emil Cioran -
The lover who kills himself for a girl has an experience which is more complete and much more profound than the hero who overturns the world.
Emil Cioran
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When you get over an infatuation, to fall for someone ever again seems so inconceivable that you imagine no one, not even a bug, that is not mired in disappointment.
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'You really should come to the house - one of these days we might die without having seen each other again.' - 'Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again?'
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Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
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After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?
Emil Cioran -
What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music.
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As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
Emil Cioran
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Try as I will, I don't see what might exist...
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I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
Emil Cioran -
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
Emil Cioran -
How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
Emil Cioran -
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.
Emil Cioran -
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
Emil Cioran
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History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.
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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."
Emil Cioran -
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
Emil Cioran -
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
Emil Cioran