Best Emile M. Cioran Sayings
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
All
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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Authority
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Derives
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Among
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Debility
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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Age
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
Death
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Action
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
Country
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One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
Hardly
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
Derive
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
Philosopher
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Concern
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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
Flesh
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The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
Deeper
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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Man
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Inspirational
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To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that…
Act
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Any
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Ardor
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
Accomplishment
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Under each formula lies a corpse.
Corpse
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
Assert
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Define
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
Derive
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