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Writing Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
- Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
- We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
- What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased…
- The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule;…
- To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act…
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