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> [“There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor anticipations, and without even knowing who we are. And it is then that the day seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/there-are-nights-that-the-most-ingenious-torturers-could-not-have/)

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

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## More by Emil M. Cioran

> [“If we do not regard ourselves as entrusted with a mission, existence is difficult; action, impossible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/if-we-do-not-regard-ourselves-as-entrusted-with-a-mission-existence/)

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

> [“In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/in-the-fact-of-being-born-there-is-such-an-absence-of-necessity-that/)

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

> [“Filming a scene, there are countless takes of the same incident. Someone watching in the street - obviously a provincial - can't get over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/filming-a-scene-there-are-countless-takes-of-the-same-incident/)

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

> [“If I reflect on any moment of my life, the most feverish or the most neutral, what remains? — and what difference is there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/if-i-reflect-on-any-moment-of-my-life-the-most-feverish-or-the-most/)

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

> [“You’re against everything that’s been done since the last war,” said the very up-to-date lady. “You’ve got the wrong date: I’m against everything that’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/you-re-against-everything-that-s-been-done-since-the-last-war-said/)

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

> [“Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/call-it-insensitivity-or-a-passion-for-remorse-i-have-never/)

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

> [“Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/nothing-more-aggravating-than-a-seamless-unremitting-irony-which/)

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> [“What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/what-makes-bad-poets-worse-is-that-they-read-only-poets-just-as-bad/)

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

> [“The worst crimes are committed out of enthusiasm, a morbid state responsible for almost all public and private disasters.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/the-worst-crimes-are-committed-out-of-enthusiasm-a-morbid-state/)

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

> [“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/there-is-nothing-to-say-about-anything-so-there-can-be-no-limit-to/)

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

> [“Every form of haste, even toward the good, betrays some mental disorder.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/every-form-of-haste-even-toward-the-good-betrays-some-mental-disorder/)

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

> [“The emphasis on birth is no more than the craving for the insoluble carried to the point of insanity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/the-emphasis-on-birth-is-no-more-than-the-craving-for-the-insoluble/)

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

> [“There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/there-are-nights-that-the-most-ingenious-torturers-could-not-have/)

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

> [“When I torment myself a little too much for not working, I tell myself that I might just as well be dead and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/when-i-torment-myself-a-little-too-much-for-not-working-i-tell-myself/)

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

> [“Truth remains hidden to the man filled with desire and hatred” (Buddha)…. Which is to say, to every man alive.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/truth-remains-hidden-to-the-man-filled-with-desire-and-hatred-buddha/)

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