Best Emile M. Cioran Thoughts
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He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
Drama
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He who hates himself is not humble.
Hate
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I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
All
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What are you waiting for in order to give up?
Give
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There is no limit to suffering.
Inspirational
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
Aphorism
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Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is…
Accessories
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The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.
Beginning
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One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
Cannot Live
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Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
Cancer
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As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become…
Anomalies
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This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do…
Anonymous
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Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate…
Adapted
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I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.
Always End
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
Forty
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I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.
Better
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The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
Alienated
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No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.
Alive
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Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
All
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Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.
Inspirational
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What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me…
Acquaintance
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True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Art
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
Believe
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A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...
Country
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What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
Abuse
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