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Cannot Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
- Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
- When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
- The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational…
- The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with…
- Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
- One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
- 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…
- If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
- Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no…
- Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
- We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...
- I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
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