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> [Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/speech-and-silence-we-feel-safer-with-a-madman-who-talks-than-with/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

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## More by Emile M. Cioran

> [What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/what-does-the-future-that-half-of-time-matter-to-the-man-who-is/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/progress-is-the-injustice-each-generation-commits-with-regard-to-its/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/to-defy-heredity-is-to-defy-billions-of-years-to-defy-the-first-cell/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/a-people-represents-not-so-much-an-aggregate-of-ideas-and-theories-as/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> ["The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/the-holy-ghost-luther-instructs-us-is-not-a-skeptic-not-everyone-can/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/every-word-affords-me-pain-yet-how-sweet-it-would-be-if-i-could-hear/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/woes-and-wonders-of-power-that-tonic-hell-synthesis-of-poison-and/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/if-each-of-us-were-to-confess-his-most-secret-desire-the-one-that/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [He who hates himself is not humble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/he-who-hates-himself-is-not-humble/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/impossible-to-spend-sleepless-nights-and-accomplish-anything-if-in-my/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/one-is-and-remains-a-slave-as-long-as-one-is-not-cured-of-hoping/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/let-us-not-be-needlessly-bitter-certain-failures-are-sometimes/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/ambition-is-a-drug-that-makes-its-addicts-potential-madmen/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

> [Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/humanity-adores-only-those-who-cause-it-to-perish/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/psychoanalysis-is-a-technique-we-practice-at-our-cost-psychoanalysis/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

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