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Up Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
- Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more…
- To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
- Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
- What are you waiting for in order to give up?
- Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
- 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…
- To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and…
- 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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