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Great Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
- Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
- No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far…
- I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to…
- Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as…
- A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together,…
- Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
- The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and…
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