Best Emile M. Cioran Proverbs
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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
Act
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I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance…
All
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Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical…
Anew
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We change ideas like neckties.
Change
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The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes…
Action
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My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
Constitute
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It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not…
Been
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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive,…
Accent
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Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Absolute
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What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness…
Appeals
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I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for…
Among
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Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.
Deep
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I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
Crumble
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Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
Approach
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Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.
Ancient
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by…
Becomes
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Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.
Been
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To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
Billions
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We are all geniuses when we dream.
All
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One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
Country
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To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself…
Able
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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all…
All
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
All
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A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.
Betrayal
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How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
All
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