Tearing Itself Apart Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

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• Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
• Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
• Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
• Our first intuitions are the true ones.
• I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
• Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
• What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
• A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay…
• Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
• Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
• If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
• A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

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