Best Emile M. Cioran Wisdom
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Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual…
All
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Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
Any
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One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.
Cured
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
Aberration
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What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
Counts
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Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
Age
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The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
Demand
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Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
From
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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
Delicate
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Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
Beware
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By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.
Buried
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As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
Begins
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If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
Conceive
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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times…
Been
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Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
Cynical
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Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something…
Almost Always
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Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.
Dissipates
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Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
Affords
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The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
Anemone
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Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Appetite
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The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Even Greater
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A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.
Book
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Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Except
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Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and…
Aggression
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Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Believe
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