Best Emile M. Cioran Qoutes
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After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find…
All
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Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them…
Account
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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they…
Age
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A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
Advice
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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the…
Act
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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
Acquiring
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Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice…
Act
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Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
Boredom
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If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood…
Age
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There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the…
Absurdity
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Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.
Deadly
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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
All
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The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
Abdicates
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What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased…
Book
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Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.
Certain
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The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule;…
Beads
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To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act…
Act
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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Crime
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Enjoy
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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Believe
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Word - that invisible dagger.
Dagger
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To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of…
Always Aware
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I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person
Any
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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
Eternity
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
Dream
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