All Emile M. Cioran Quotes
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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
All
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Addict
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Criticism
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Our first intuitions are the true ones.
Brainy
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Accident
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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Aversion
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
Better
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention…
Brings
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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
All
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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Always Sweet
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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Funny
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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Democracy
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Born
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Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Disaster
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What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Belongs
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Every Man
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Happiness
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Always Kill
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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
Among
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Commit
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