Best Emile M. Cioran Lines
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What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
Compatriots
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Glory — once achieved, what is it worth?
Achieved
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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than…
Absence
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For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Freedom
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Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more…
Define
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It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other
All
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Abuse
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I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Day
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Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
Compromise
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
Certain
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Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
Appetite
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Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret…
Created
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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
Alone
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The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
Appetite
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
Blow
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To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
Chain
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Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.
All
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Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
Disgust
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Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
Fall
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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
Fragmentary
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To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
Baseness
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In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that…
Attach
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On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
Crave
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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
Childish
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That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Admit
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